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Is Hurling slowly dying?

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  • #52
    thegen
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    As someone who is new to hurling (footballer) through my sons involvement I'm of the opinion its on the increase in Dublin. My sons football age group have 90+ playing and hurling has 70+, Yes it is behind football in popularity but on the decline, no.


  • #53
    wow sierra
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    thegen wrote: »
    As someone who is new to hurling (footballer) through my sons involvement I'm of the opinion its on the increase in Dublin. My sons football age group have 90+ playing and hurling has 70+, Yes it is behind football in popularity but on the decline, no.

    Agree - hurling is very much on the increase in Dublin, and by "Dublin" you could also include the Dublin communter belt counties also. Overall I don't think Hurling is even declining and it is certainly not dying. Emigration and the recession will make it harder for clubs to invest the extra money required to subsidise Helmets and Hurleys for underage teams, so that will be a challenge. But the GAA and Huling has lived through challenges before.


  • #54
    mwoodsd
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    Pardon me for taking this on a tangent. I started playing the game last year in San Diego, California and there have been several new teams pop up here on the West Coast of the U.S. in a fairly short time frame. I know our version of the game will never come up to par with the skill level played over there, but it does seem to be growing in these parts.


  • #55
    dirtyden
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    This seems to be the ideal back up page filler for the lazy GAA journalist.

    Hurling is dying, Kilkenny are winning everything, nobody going to league games etc etc.

    Hurling is the same as it ever was. The same areas have always produced hurlers. Crowds at league games is also a red herring for me. Hurling is a summer sport. The league is no more than an interesting training exercise.

    Anyone who saw the last two all-irelands or admired the recent great kilkenny team (RIP 2010), would he hard pressed to argue for the death of hurling. Biggest viewing figures by a mile for any sporting event on Irish TV was last years hirling all ireland.

    We never see the counterargument about the behemoth that hurling used to be where all 32 counties were competitive. Someone mentions that old cliche of 40'000 attending railway cup games to see christy ring, to justify a lazy page filler about the troubles ahead for hurling.


    However I would say that there would be some justice in an alternative argument in how the GAA sports position themselves versus other past times.


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