THE Cork hurlers were slated following their All-Ireland final second half collapse but that did not surprise Alan Connolly.

All-Ireland hurling semi-finals: Cork v Dublin (Saturday 17:00 BST, Croke Park); Kilkenny v Tipperary (Sunday, 16:00 BST, Croke Park) Coverage: Watch on BBC Two Northern Ireland, BBC iPlayer & BBC ...

July 16 (Reuters) - More than 82,000 fans will roar themselves hoarse inside Croke Park on Sunday, as tradition and rivalry collide with speed, skill and ferocity when Cork and Tipperary contest the ...

PROVIDENCE — The fastest game on grass? Not soccer. Not baseball. It’s hurling — with an “h,” a stick-and-ball sport not to be confused with curling, an ice-and-broom sport. Hurling’s history reaches ...

It’s the fastest game on grass and, at 3,000 years old, widely considered to be one of the oldest field sports in the world. This is the Irish sport of hurling and, for the first time in almost two ...

With this year’s All-Ireland Senior Hurling Championship final reaching hundreds of thousands of potential fans across the BBC network, we thought it best to give you an easy-read guide to the ...