Hurleys into "Hurls"

beeroclock

When the fook did hurleys all of a sudden become hurls?????????

The sports is hurling and is played with hurlies unless I'm missing something here?

vctrburk

true it sounds fackin weird

MickySticks

So is it hurleys or hurlies?

Calling a hurley or a hurlie a hurl is what hurlers say for short when they are hurling.

beeroclock

MickySticks wrote: »

So is it hurleys or hurlies?

Calling a hurley or a hurlie a hurl is what hurlers say for short when they are hurling.

Its sticks me does think Micky!

Jimmy Iovine

I've only ever called them "hurls". As have everyone that I know.

I only know one person who says hurleys and he does it to just to be a pain.

Hurleys just sounds awkward to me.

joes girls

I always tells the boys to get their hurls .............but i'm not a very big GAA mam!!!

le la rat

I hurled when i saw this thread.

quintain

Is it part of the country you're from? I'm from warerford city, I've always called them hurleys

So I use a hurley to hurl during a game of hurling

On a small point of order, if you call them hurls then the word hurley does not exist for you? It has ni meaning, Is that right?

DublinGAA96

quintain wrote: »

Is it part of the country you're from? I'm from warerford city, I've always called them hurleys

So I use a hurley to hurl during a game of hurling

On a small point of order, if you call them hurls then the word hurley does not exist for you? It has ni meaning, Is that right?

Yeah, this man is exactly right. It all depends on where abouts you're from. All throughout Munster, its pronounced 'hurley'. Its always been that way. But as you come up towards Leinster, in and around Dublin and that, its pronounced 'hurl'. So theres no correct term in my opinion, it kind of boils down to where you're from. I hope this solves your problem.

beeroclock

Yep thanks I wasn't aware they were called hurleys in some parts and hurls in others thanks guys

run_Forrest_run

always called it a hurl myself. Hurley sounds like something made up by someone in a private school, too close to hockey:D

Now this is a Hurley

CrabRevolution

Was always a hurl to me anyway. In Diramuid O'Flynn's book about hurling he says it's moastly called a hurley in Munster, but just a hurl in Leinster and Connacht.

fearruanua

and also- hurling is played with a sliotar and not a "ball" as is heard commonly around the country. "throw in a ball there lads" is the usual comment :mad:

Speak Now

Tis a Hurley in Kilkenny and they Hurl well it!

donegal.

up here we cal them clubs.

PaulKK

Jerry Seinfeld wrote: »

Tis a Hurley in Kilkenny

No its not, at least I've never heard anyone call one a hurley.

Speak Now

PaulKK wrote: »

No its not, at least I've never heard anyone call one a hurley.

Ah Camán, dont be like that

In some parts people call them ''legally carried weapons'' :P

MrJoeSoap

Jerry Seinfeld wrote: »

Ah Camán, dont be like that

Puck off Jerry.

TomKat

Does it really matter what they're called? anyone moaning about what they're referred to as are just trolling imo

Jimmy Iovine

Jerry Seinfeld wrote: »

Tis a Hurley in Kilkenny and they Hurl well it!

Never heard it being called that here. The only time is when a lad tries to annoy people by calling it hurley.

CrabRevolution

CrabRevolution wrote: »

Was always a hurl to me anyway. In Diramuid O'Flynn's book about hurling he says it's moastly called a hurley in Munster, but just a hurl in Leinster and Connacht.

i remember our u21s played Galway up in Lorrha in a challenge last year and Anthony Cunningham protested to the ref "Ah come on he was holding his hurl" to which a fellow Tipperary follower i know, more out of slagging than anything replied, "Its called a f*cking hurley"

All about where your from i suppose

premierstone

Deleted User wrote: »

i remember our u21s played Galway up in Lorrha in a challenge last year and Anthony Cunningham protested to the ref "Ah come on he was holding his hurl" to which a fellow Tipperary follower i know, more out of slagging than anything replied, "Its called a f*cking hurley"

All about where your from i suppose

Yeah its a geographical thing really, the irony being that within Tipp itself you have both terms used, In North Tipp it would almost exclusively be referred to as a 'hurl'.

Big Ears

premierstone wrote: »

Yeah its a geographical thing really, the irony being that within Tipp itself you have both terms used, In North Tipp it would almost exclusively be referred to as a 'hurl'.

Very true, even more ironic is that includes Lorrha where that game took place.

Trigger13222

Seriously is it a big fcuking deal what people call it?

MrJoeSoap

Trigger13222 wrote: »

Seriously is it a big fcuking deal what people call it?

Is anything on this site a big deal? I tend to find that if a thread isn't of interest to me, I skip it.

Trigger13222

MrJoeSoap wrote: »

Is anything on this site a big deal? I tend to find that if a thread isn't of interest to me, I skip it.

True , I should of just skipped it.