Gaelic sports

Puck of the Irish

Today, hurling is a thriving summer sport across Canada – but its ancestral links with ice hockey may go back centuries Eamon Donoghue Photography by Jennifer Gauthier Vancouver The Globe and Mail Published 27 seconds ago

The competition was fierce at this hurling championship match last month in Burnaby, B.C., where Vancouver’s Cú Chulainn team, in green, met their crosstown rivals the Wolfe Tones. The competition was fierce at this hurling championship match last month in Burnaby, B.C., where Vancouver’s Cú Chulainn team, in green, met their crosstown rivals the Wolfe Tones.

The national sports of Ireland and Canada share a 250-year connection that is woven into the very origins of ice hockey and the story of the Irish in this country.

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