If watching fast-moving field games is your passion, you'll be excited to learn that players and legends involved in the game of hurling, one of Ireland’s native Gaelic Games, are coming back to Boston.
Hurling shares many similarities to Gaelic football, such as the field and goals. It combines agility, strength and intensity. According to promoters of the event, Hurling dates back 3,000 years and is believed to be the world’s oldest field game.
Dermot Earley, a former player and Chief Executive of the Gaelic Players Association joined WGBH's Morning Edition to talk about hurling, saying, "it's our national sport. It's played in every corner of Ireland and it's ingrained into Irish society. It's important for each community to have a hurling team."
The event is returning to Fenway Park and players recently visited the city to showcase their upcoming AIG Fenway Hurling Classic and Irish Festival that’s happening November 19, 2017.
Back in 2015 nearly 28,000 fans packed into the ballpark to catch an intense match between Galway and Dublin, a terrific ongoing rivalry.
To listen to the entire interview with Dermot Earley, click on the audio player above.
