Early on Sunday morning at Pennypack Park, about 20 minutes northeast of Philadelphia, you could still enjoy the last bits of calm before the third and final day of the North American GAA Championships really kicked into gear.

A RECENT documentary was aired on US cable television chronicling the story of the Barley House Wolves, a hurling club in New Hampshire consisting entirely of National Guard soldiers.

“THIS is a warrior sport and we are warriors” — that’s how one American soldier explains his love of hurling, a passion shared by fellow members of a United States National Guard unit from Concord, New Hampshire.