Bernard O'Shea: the birds and the bees of the GAA
Trying to explain the rules of anything to kids can be tricky. Photograph Moya Nolan
Our eldest who is seven has just finished her first summer outing in a Cúl Camp. She is mostly into dancing and singing and was slightly confused before she went for the first time.
“Is it the game with the iron sticks that you play on ice?” she asked her mother. We later deduced she had mixed up golf and ice hockey. (A game that I would love to see.) On her return home she was instantly infatuated with all things .
