Hurl or Hurley

obi604 · 09-09-2017 11:36am #1

I'm from Galway and where I'm from we always call it a "Hurl"

But seems a lot of other places call it a "Hurley"

Where are you from?
And what do you call it?

P.S. I'm not looking for the correct grammatical name etc, don't need a lesson on that. I already know hurl is just a shortened version of it etc.

OffalyMedic · 09-09-2017 3:42pm

Hurl Offaly

v3ttel · 09-09-2017 3:43pm

obi604 wrote: »

I'm from Galway and where I'm from we always call it a "Hurl"

But seems a lot of other places call it a "Hurley"

Where are you from?
And what do you call it?

P.S. I'm not looking for the correct grammatical name etc, don't need a lesson on that. I already know hurl is just a shortened version of it etc.

I'm from Kilkenny, it's a hurl.

Hurley just sounds wrong to me.

rebel girl 15 · 09-09-2017 3:55pm

No silly comments here please - already deleted some rubbish from the thread

Duffy the Vampire Slayer · 09-09-2017 5:31pm

In my corner of Mayo it's a hurl. Not that most of us have held one very often.

UncleAlbert00 · 09-09-2017 5:32pm

Strange stick thing.

Kildare.

OldMrBrennan83 · 09-09-2017 5:32pm

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Are Am Eye · 09-09-2017 5:35pm

Further south you go they say hurley.

Water John · 09-09-2017 5:35pm

Down south, it would always be hurley and hurling.

LeinsterDub · 09-09-2017 5:36pm

Interchangeable at least that's my experience in Dublin

patsy_mccabe · 09-09-2017 8:07pm

I like to hurl with my hurley, but I'm from Clare. :rolleyes:

jgbyr · 09-09-2017 8:09pm

North County Cork. Always been a hurley.

waxmelts2000 · 09-09-2017 8:11pm

East Cork, Hurley!

Water John · 09-09-2017 8:31pm

Clare people must be X bred, Patsy. On the north south dividing line.

Lisha · 09-09-2017 8:41pm

North Cork- Hurley always

alias no.9 · 09-09-2017 8:45pm

Just to mix it up a little, I'm a Corkman in exile in Dublin and for me it's always been a Hurley but my little lad calls his a Hurl but would call his buddys a Hurley, my Hurl, your Hurley!

Water John · 09-09-2017 8:46pm

Its just historical to diff parts of the country.

Realt Dearg Sec · 09-09-2017 9:54pm

Hurl in Leinster and Connacht, Hurley in Munster. It's just a regional variation, how it ever became an opportunity for knob heads to start getting on their high horse about it is beyond me. But at least it's a chance for lads to reveal themselves to be knob heads.

Akrasia · 09-09-2017 9:57pm

Realt Dearg Sec wrote: »

Hurl in Leinster and Connacht, Hurley in Munster. It's just a regional variation, how it ever became an opportunity for knob heads to start getting on their high horse about it is beyond me. But at least it's a chance for lads to reveal themselves to be knob heads.

You're all wrong. It's a caman...

Nah, it's a hurley

Ultimate Seduction · 09-09-2017 10:01pm

You hurl with Hurley in Limerick

myshirt · 09-09-2017 10:03pm

Giant wooden spoon. South County Dublin.

Reputable Rog · 09-09-2017 10:05pm

Hurley in Clare, except for Marty Morrisey. I hate the label Hurl.

lertsnim · 09-09-2017 10:57pm

Always called it a hurley in Waterford.

Burial. · 10-09-2017 1:42pm

Hurley in Cork. Hurl would be used as a verb.

Avatar MIA · 10-09-2017 1:53pm

Players hit the sliotar with a hurley. The game is called hurling.

North Cork

Quick google, the GAA call the All Ireland the Hurling final.

Although in East Derry, I think the technical name for the Hurley is ... weapon.

Realt Dearg Sec · 10-09-2017 3:06pm

Avatar MIA wrote: »

Players hit the sliotar with a hurley. The game is called hurling.

North Cork

Quick google, the GAA call the All Ireland the Hurling final.

What else would they call it?

Mal-Adjusted · 10-09-2017 3:54pm

At home in Clare, it's always been hurley but I don't recall anyone ever getting a bee in their bonnet over it.

Dirty Dingus McGee · 10-09-2017 4:37pm

Seems to me like Hurley is a munster thing and Hurl is the rest of the country.

Avatar MIA · 10-09-2017 4:40pm

Dirty Dingus McGee wrote: »

Seems to me like Hurley is a munster thing and Hurl is the rest of the country.

Being Galway, Kilkenny, Offally, Wexford and a bit of Dublin

dxhound2005 · 10-09-2017 5:07pm

Hurley stick. A rare item where I grew up, but that is what we called it. Like hockey stick, golf club, tennis racket, cricket bat etc. It's in the dictionary.

Road-Hog · 10-09-2017 8:47pm

Hurl is the verb....Hurley is the noun......'to hurl' of course has a number meanings such as 'to puke/vomit'......to throw.......and finally alot of Hurley/hurl fans on terraces engage in 'hurling abuse at opposition players'......

byhookorbycrook · 10-09-2017 9:08pm

Hurley at home in Cork, camán in pagan Carlow.

gammygils · 10-09-2017 9:21pm

People who use the word a lot tend to abbreviate. So hurl it is

Dyr · 10-09-2017 9:28pm

Dublin, camán when I was playing growing up but usually called a hurl by people involved in the game and hurley by others. As in "I'll wrap this hurley around your f****in head"

danganabu · 12-09-2017 3:55pm

Not all Munster use the term 'hurley', here in North Tipp it would very definitely be referred to as a hurl.

aristotle25 · 12-09-2017 3:58pm

Back when I played in the late 80's it was hurley and from Galway.

TheChevron · 12-09-2017 4:55pm

Hurl, Wexford.

EndaHonesty · 12-09-2017 4:58pm

Machete. Mid Clare.

tevey08 · 12-09-2017 5:07pm

The premier: Hurley

Dr. Kenneth Noisewater · 12-09-2017 5:13pm

Jason Statham knows.

Amprodude · 14-09-2017 12:54am

Hatchet: North Kerry.

Avatar MIA · 14-09-2017 9:41am

Amprodude wrote: »

Hatchet: North Kerry.

I thought it was, 'firewood'.

Water John · 14-09-2017 9:05pm

North Kerry likes it's hurling. Didn't Galvin also play hurling?

iwillhtfu · 14-09-2017 9:13pm

aristotle25 wrote: »

Back when I played in the late 80's it was hurley and from Galway.

Ye lads should definitely be calling it a hurl sure isn't Galway in Leinster now

Amprodude · 15-09-2017 2:29am

Water John wrote: »

North Kerry likes it's hurling. Didn't Galvin also play hurling?

He was a great hurler also. Great hurling down in North Kerry. Have seen few matchs there.

Bluefoam · 08-10-2017 12:17pm

I'm from Dublin & it was always called a hurl... I even remember seeing one when I was growing up there...

Bonniedog · 08-10-2017 5:28pm

I once went out with woman from Baltimore - the real one in America - and when I told her that my favourite sport was hurling, she did not speak for about a minute :-)

Avatar MIA · 08-10-2017 7:08pm

Bonniedog wrote: »

I once went out with woman from Baltimore - the real one in America - and when I told her that my favourite sport was hurling, she did not speak for about a minute :-)

*chews gum* You've got a sport based on barfing

FishOnABike · 08-10-2017 9:48pm

Avatar MIA wrote: »

*chews gum* You've got a sport based on barfing

...and it's one point if you get it over the bar.

Hurl or Hurley

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