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Hurley or Hurl?

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    #32
    Lex Luthor
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    Hurley in Cork...up here in Kildare I've heard most of the juvenile coaches call them hurls...It was my first experience of it and I HATE IT


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    #33
    teednab-el
    Registered Users Posts: 2,971 ✭✭✭teednab-el


    What about this one, would you "hurl" the ball along the ground or "hurley" the ball along the ground? I think the former applies here not the later.


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    #34
    An Citeog
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    Camán
    teednab-el wrote: »
    What about this one, would you "hurl" the ball along the ground or "hurley" the ball along the ground? I think the former applies here not the later.

    You mean "pull on it ta fúck"?:D


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    #35
    grenache
    Registered Users Posts: 6,477 ✭✭✭grenache


    Hurl
    teednab-el wrote: »
    What about this one, would you "hurl" the ball along the ground or "hurley" the ball along the ground? I think the former applies here not the later.
    You'd hurl the ball with the hurley. Hurley is the noun, hurl is an adverb.


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    #36
    Big Ears
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    Camán
    Hurl-North Tipperary


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    #37
    kildare9
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    Hurl-Kildare


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    #38
    Pride Fighter
    Registered Users Posts: 5,729 ✭✭✭Pride Fighter


    I call it a caman. Its the correct term;)


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    #39
    Patsy fyre
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    Hurl
    Its generally called hurley in hurling playing counties and hurl in counties which ase dominated by football.


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    #40
    aDeener
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    its a weapon ;)


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    #41
    Bbbbolger
    Registered Users Posts: 448 ✭✭Bbbbolger


    Patsy fyre wrote: »
    Its generally called hurley in hurling playing counties and hurl in counties which ase dominated by football.

    I dissagree. Im from Wexford, a hurling dominated county. We mightnt be very good at it anymore but hurling does command the most sway and respect amongst young and old in this county. All across Wexford its known as a hurl.


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    #42
    Bob_Harris
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    Camán
    Pride Fighter wrote: »
    I call it a caman. Its the correct term;)

    Welcome to an English speaking nation, get over it.


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    #43
    3hn2givr7mx1sc
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    Camán
    In Clare I've heard both equally used, in Laois it's hurl.
    But then again, most people my age(teens) in laois call a sliotar a "hurlin' ball", it's a sliotar you fcuking plank!


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    #44
    Ricardo G
    Registered Users Posts: 1,308 ✭✭✭Ricardo G


    The object of hurling is to catch the sliotar on the blade of the hurley, carry it, and then hurl it into the goal. The sliotar may be picked off the ground only with the hurley

    Google search hurl or hurley


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    #45
    wixfjord
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    Hurley isnt tolerated in Wexford anyway! Nor Carlow.


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    #46
    Bbbbolger
    Registered Users Posts: 448 ✭✭Bbbbolger


    wixfjord wrote: »
    Hurley isnt tolerated in Wexford anyway! Nor Carlow.

    +1 sir!


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    #47
    dlofnep
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    It's a hurley. That's the official name. "Hurl" is something you do when you have to sit in the company of the type of people who call them hurls.


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    #48
    derealbadger
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    Camán
    Lex Luthor wrote: »
    Hurley in Cork...up here in Kildare I've heard most of the juvenile coaches call them hurls...It was my first experience of it and I HATE IT

    though in kildare it was called a 'whats that'


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    #49
    granturismo
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    Camán
    derealbadger wrote: »
    though in kildare it was called a 'whats that'

    Always called it a hurl growing up in KK and the kids carrying axe shaped sticks here in Kildare call it a 'hurl'


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    #50
    derealbadger
    Registered Users Posts: 1,101 ✭✭✭derealbadger


    Camán
    in Galway its a hurl and in Offaly to


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    #51
    Bob_Harris
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    Camán
    I think we can all agree that if the true hurling counties like Wexford, Kilkenny, Galway, Offaly, and of course Carlow call it a Hurl, then it is a Hurl.


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    #52
    dlofnep
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    Bob_Harris wrote: »
    I think we can all agree that if the true hurling counties like Wexford, Kilkenny, Galway, Offaly, and of course Carlow call it a Hurl, then it is a Hurl.

    Wrong.
    Hurling (Irish: Iománaíocht / Iomáint) is an outdoor team sport of ancient Gaelic origin, administered by the Gaelic Athletic Association, and played with sticks called hurleys and a ball called a sliotar.

    Hurl is something you call it, because you're too lazy to say hurley.


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    #53
    FunnyStuff
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    Wicklow ....... what?


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    #54
    An Citeog
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    Camán
    dlofnep wrote: »
    Wrong.



    Hurl is something you call it, because you're too lazy to say hurley.

    Or because that's what it's colloquially referred to in whatever part of the country you happen to be from.:rolleyes:

    The op's question is where are you from & what are they called there?


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    #55
    cladafella
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    "hurdle"


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    #56
    Minstrel27
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    Hurl
    It is called a hurley. Hurl is what a lazy person would call it.


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    #57
    derealbadger
    Registered Users Posts: 1,101 ✭✭✭derealbadger


    Camán
    Minstrel27 wrote: »
    It is called a hurley. Hurl is what a lazy person would call it.

    its a hurl I would call you names but I just don't have the energy


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    #58
    Rowley Birkin QC
    Registered Users Posts: 6,223 ✭✭✭Rowley Birkin QC


    Hurl
    Another +1 for it being called a hurley. Calling it a hurl is all kinds of wrong.


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    #59
    derealbadger
    Registered Users Posts: 1,101 ✭✭✭derealbadger


    Camán
    Rowley Birkin QC wrote: »
    Another +1 for it being called a hurley. Calling it a hurl is all kinds of wrong.

    in Kildare you are probably right but in the real hurling county's with the exception of Waterford and Limerick you are wrong bit like us telling the Aussies the correct terminology for Aussie rules


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    #60
    jordainius
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,654 ✭✭✭jordainius


    Hurl
    My own opinion; you hurl with a hurley.

    Hurl is what you do. A hurley is what you use!

    I always thought of hurl as an action i.e. to launch something or to throw up so I never really understood the logic behind calling it a "hurl".

    Damn it this thread should have come with a poll!

    How about we all get along and stick to calling it a "camán"?!


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    #61
    mikemac
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    Hurl
    In Tipp it is a hurley, a noun

    "Hurl" is something you do, a verb, I hurl with my friend on the pitch
    Only a lazy person says hurl
    Bob_Harris wrote: »
    I think we can all agree that if the true hurling counties like Wexford, Kilkenny, Galway, Offaly, and of course Carlow call it a Hurl, then it is a Hurl.

    You put in Carlow and leave out Cork and Tipp, yeah??? :pac:


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