A journey to the heart of the world’s most remarkable field sport- hurling Hurling is Ireland’s national game – a source of fascination and pride, even to people who have never played it. Ciaran Murphy, a lifelong club footballer, used to be one of those people. Then he spent a summer trying to play hurling with a tiny club in the West Waterford Gaeltacht. Along the way he embarked on a quest to understand the history, geography and mystique of this extraordinary sport. Old Parish is the club of Ciaran’s father, a club where relatives of his are still deeply involved, and possibly the only place brave (or stupid) enough to take on a forty-one-year-old newcomer to the game. Anyone who has ever watched hurling knows that it is something unique and extraordinary. Old Parish explains why.
