What do you use to hit a sliotar?

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Dh is wrongly calling it a hurl. I correctly call it a hurley. For context, I have munster heritage, he's from just outside the pale. It's come to a head as ds has just started at the local gaa academy and dh is just trying to piss me off

Don’t worry that flag was put to very good use since August 19th! Amazing how many people are from my home county that I never knew about until the last month.

Hurl. Or hurley, but it doesn't come naturally.

I have also heard it called a hurling stick, which makes me imagine a 1950s-style BBC documentary describing the peculiar game played by the natives in Ireland with a small, hard ball and so-called hurling sticks

It's a camán for me, because the only time I have ever played camogie (brief and disastrous episode -- helmets were not yet being worn) it was Gaeilge with a PE nun known as Ming the Merciless.

I love that only an lrish person would have any clue what this post is about..right down to Ming the Merciless and her caman.

In Antrim here and it's a hurl!

Hurl, I'm from Dublin and have no actual interest so thought hurl was the official title and was quite proud of myself for knowing it before I opened the thread

I'd say either a camán or a hurling stick

A Hurley!! Or camán as gaeilge 😉

Hurl where I live now but Hurley at home. I prefer hurl myself.

Person of Irish heritage here - never heard anyone use “outside the pale” in conversation - assume it means outside Dublin and environs - is it still a current expression?

Hurley but to be fair I know feck all about GAA

It’s a camán!

Ming the merciless is an effin eeejit both sides of the Shannon.

I’d say hurl but come from a county not known for its hurling prowess! So defo not an expert

On a side note I live in London so the Gaa is fairly limited these day but my 5yonDS was totally enthralled by the hurling when we were home in the summer. Loved it!

From up north and it’s a hurley. My mum would say beyond the pale but she’s not reliable

Hurley here. Dub but Munster parents so not sure if that was an influence.

I'm from Dublin with family roots in Carlow very close to Kilkenny, and I never in my life heard the word 'hurl' for hurley..

@borntobequiet, it most certainly is.

Helps delineate how jackeens and culchies speak.

I would call it a hurley, but I wouldn't know what do with it if someone walloped me with one.....which I would imagine would hurt....so I'm not reliable.

I'm from more of a netball/hockey kind of world.....sorry.

Thanks - actually I now recall my mother did - tho from outside/beyond the pale herself...Kilkenny...

Press, not cupboards. (derails the thread)

Hurl.

Just thought I'd resurrect this thread to let you know that my DH has been heard to call it a Hurley-Bat on occasion! Shudder

A hurley. I knew I was in trouble when my mum got it out..

Christ Almighty banjaxed would the wooden spoon not do? You must be awful bold

I grew up in the West and it was called a hurl, I live in the South-East and it's called a hurley though I've just watched a video of the legend DJ Carey and he calls it a hurl.