By Ciarán Murphy My experience of hurling as a young boy was not too uncommon. I loved it, I loved watching it, the best players in the country were heroes to me… and I never, ever got a chance to play it. There are two Irelands. In the one I grew up in, hurling was not the done thing. In the other Ireland, it is very much the done thing – and no one there will ever be allowed to sell …
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