Sports in Irelad

 

Sports

There are two main sports that are played in Ireland, one is hurling, it's the most popular sport and it's called camogie if girls play it, the other one is Gaelic football. Also I don't know if everybody but the people I was with loved playing darts.

Hurling is a sport played with a stick called hurley, with a wide flat part. The game consist on getting goals, there are two different types of goals depending where it happend, because the goal is like a football one, but with two large vertical sticks, so if you do a goal on the top part you have one point and if you do it on the lower part it's three points. The ball that they use is hard like a baseball ball and it's called sliotar. The basic rules are that you can't walk more than four steps with the ball on the hand, so you can pass it with the hand, hit it with the hurley to pass it or run with it on your hurley. Also you can't pick the ball from the floor with your hands, you have to do it with your hurley, that's cause it has a flat part.

Gaelic football uses the same goal and type of punctuation as hurling and some of the rules are the same. The ball in this case is a football ball. On this game you also can't do more than four steps with the ball on your hands, so you can bounce it, tap it with your feet or pass it, you can only bounce it once, after you have to tap it or pass it, also to pass the ball you have to hit it with your fits on a way up trajectory.