Losing Ireland tag can bring hurling to the world

When the email from the Orlando Hurling Club in Florida popped into my inbox a few weeks back, I wasn’t sure how to respond.

It was yet another example of how pockets of passion for the GAA turn up in the unlikeliest places. It never gets old though.

For Kilkenny-born, Leitrim-based, journalist Denis O’Brien there was something in this growth of hurling in the States, always fascinating, sometimes eccentric and definitely full of hope for the future.