Fogarty Forum: Ash hurley will soon be an artefact

There is enough ash for this generation and the next to enjoy a traditional hurley but after that, it will go the way of the hickory golf club. 

ART: Stephen Dowling shapes the hurl with a bandsaw at The Star Hurley in Jenkinstown, Kilkenny. Picture: Ramsey Cardy/Sportsfile

The ash dieback crisis troubling hurley manufacturing reached the pages of The New York Times last month.

Their London-based journalist Megan Specia travelled to Clare and Limerick. In the former, she interviewed hurley maker Seán Torpey whose family business have been leading the bamboo revolution as ash supplies wilt.