Bid to stop clash of the Scandinavian and Welsh ash

THE clash of the ash thrilled hurling followers all year long, but all of it didn’t have Irish roots as some of the fans might have realised.

For the RDS has now revealed that most of the ash timber used in the manufacture of hurleys is at imported from Wales and Scandinavia.

That might come has a culture shock to the purists and traditionalists, who marvel at what is one of the fastest and most skilful of field games anywhere in the world.