10 February 2011
The popular BBC TV programme, Countryfile, is broadcast from Northern Ireland this weekend. Details here, http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00ysrhk
The programme begins at 7pm on BBC1 and includes a section recorded in Casement Park which looks at hurling.
"(Presenters) Ellie and Matt head to Casement Park, the principal Gaelic Athletic Association stadium in Belfast, Northern Ireland to learn about the traditional game of hurling. The game has prehistoric origins and has been played for at least 3,000 years. Local school children demonstrate how the game is played as Matt and Ellie slog it out to see who can hit the ball – known as a sliotar – the hardest and fastest. The professionals can hit it up to 93 miles per hour! Ellie uses a hurl she’s made with a local ‘hurlmaker’ from locally grown larch"