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Brought to you by Penguin. Hurling is Ireland's national game – a source of fascination and pride, even to people who have never played it. Ciarán Murphy, a lifelong club footballer, used to be one of those people. Then he spent a summer trying to play hurling with a tiny club in the West Waterford Gaeltacht. Along the way he embarked on a quest to understand the history, geography and mystique of this extraordinary sport.

The GAA is Ireland's largest civil society organisation, woven into the fabric of families and communities - and yet most books about Gaelic games focus on the greatest players and inter-county teams. This is the Life is a book about the 99 per cent: a witty and provocative look at grassroots GAA from the most intelligent and interesting Gaelic games pundit at work today.

Fáilte chuig gaylinn, sponsored by Camile Thai. The new, bilingual podcast with Cian Griffin, Ciarán Murphy & Cathal O’Sullivan.Each week, we’ll explore the worst, weird, and wonderful of gnath-thaithi an tsaoil, from the football pitch to the cluuurb. Na rudaí is measa, is aistí, agus is iontaí about life as we know it. Spilling the tea (and the stór focail) along the way. So whether you’re fully fluent, or starting from scratch, this podcast is for you. And creid uaimse é, you definitely didn’t learn any of this in school. We’ll be trauma dumping from the minefield of dating...