King, Seamus J. (1998). The Clash of the Ash in Foreign Fields: Hurling Abroad. pp.147–151. ISBN 978-0-9533513-0-5. Immediately after his promotion to Brigade O.C. Hurley met with Tom Barry in Barrett’s pub in Killeady. Here Hurley showed Barry that he possessed a military and tactical awareness far beyond his years or experience.Tom Barry was a veteran of World War I and was not easily impressed. Hurley outlined plans to Barry, himself a gifted military tactician, for Barry to take over the training of the entire West Cork Volunteer movement. Hurley stressed to Barry the importance of his men being properly trained in how to defend themselves. The Volunteers were drawn from every strand of West Cork Society, farmers, townspeople, labourers, professionals and most had no military training or experience whatsoever. Hurleys motto as their leader became “ Train and Fight ” Proposed link to video of Star Player articulating why he loves playing Hurling for his Club and County/>

A goal is signalled by raising a green flag, placed to the left of the goal. A point is signalled by raising a white flag, placed to the right of goal. They would say from their days with the smaller bas you’re only hitting it in the one spot and that’s the right spot. Certainly with some of the inter-county lads it’s madness all right." Derek Lyng stepped into the Kilkenny managerial hot seat late last summer after the departure of the long-serving and legendary Brian Cody. We used to use longer hurls because you needed them to generate more power. They are shorter now, harder to hook.

Sunday's defeat for Cork left them with just two points from their opening three games, and looking over their shoulders somewhat with four rounds of fixtures to play in Division 2. The artist DJ Carey: "The hurls have developed, the bas are bigger, the hurl itself is shorter but the bas is bigger. One of the first modern attempts to standardise the game with a formal, written set of rules came with the foundation of the Irish Hurling Union at Trinity College Dublin in 1879. It aimed "to draw up a code of rules for all clubs in the union and to foster that manly and noble game of hurling in this, its native country". [18] I talked to guys in Wexford, Donegal, Dublin, Derry and it's the same everywhere, so it's extremely worrying. Hurls are traditionally made from the bottom three feet or so of the tree – you measure the required height from the ground to your wrist rather than hip – with the turn at the root providing the wider end known as the bas.

Scorers for Nemo Rangers: M Cronin (0-3, 0-3 frees), L Connolly (0-3, 0-1 free); B Cripps, B O’Driscoll, J Horgan (0-1 each). I was taken off by the manager for trying a ground stroke and warned not to do it again," he said. For shame. The Memorial at Upton as it is to-day. It was unveiled by Flor Begley in 1968. The late Flor Begley was a famed Bandonian who was the Piper at both the Kilmichael and Crossbarry ambushes. He also led the funeral cortege at the burial of Charlie Hurley in Clogagh. Oblivious to his great heroism in his youth, he ran a family Newsagents on the Main Street in Bandon for decades. These craftsmen also tell of another trend: shorter hurls – as shooters want to avoid being hooked, also making it easier to lift the sliotar into the hand, conversely making ground hurling less fruitful.

I've been at this 10 years and every year it gets harder and harder, but now in this past six months it has been critical - it's almost impossible to get. Look, it’s the clash of the ash, not the clash of the carbon-fibre,” Tony says with a grin. “It doesn’t have the same ring to it, does it?” The ball, known as a sliotar, has a cork centre and a leather cover; it is between 69 and 72mm (2.7 and 2.8in) in diameter, and weighs between 110 and 120g (3.9 and 4.2oz) The vast majority of the wood is imported,” says Tony. “There’s ash being cultivated in Ireland at the moment, but it’ll be eight to 10 years before it comes on stream so about 90% is imported, mostly from Poland.”

In much the same way that the official GAA sliotar has been standardised, it is expected that specifications that determine how a hurley performs will also be standardised in the near future. the "hook", where a player approaches another player from a rear angle and attempts to catch the opponent's hurley with his own at the top of the swing Currently the only specification in the rule-book regarding hurleys is that they must not measure more than 13cm at their widest point, but this isn’t enforced, and nowadays most adult hurleys are between 16 and 20 at their widest point. Going more than four steps with the ball in the hand (it may be carried indefinitely on the hurley) Castlehaven were not be contained. Ten years of waiting put behind them. The West re-awoken and rulers once more.The irony is that Ireland's 250 or so hurley makers had been importing 80% of their ash due to shortages here anyway but state forestry company Coillte had planted enough for self-sufficient domestic supply by 2020. With trees dying rapidly or being felled to stop the spread of disease, that is no longer an option.