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Hurling and Us

Heroes

Season 1, Ep. 3

The people we interviewed for this project love hurling. They love recalling matches, passages of play and their hurling heroes. Listen as they take you back in time and share the joy that hurling has brought to them.


Special thanks to our interviewees and their families. Featured in this episode are: Paddy Buggy, Martin Mulhall, Ned Quinn, David Rice and Henry Shefflin.

 

Thanks to the GAA Museum and Archive at Croke Park for permission to share excerpts from the collection. The full archive is available at https://www.gaa.ie/the-gaa/oral-history/.

 

Produced by Regina Fitzpatrick and Conor Sweetman. Narrated by Regina Fitzpatrick.

 

This series is brought to you by the Heritage Office of Kilkenny County Council.



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