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Lonely Planet tells tourists hurling is like 'hockey on steroids'

So now.

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A LONELY PLANET author writing a travel guide to Dublin has described hurling for tourists as “hockey on steroids”.

This article on the travel guide’s website tackles an important topic: what to do in Dublin when you’ve got a crippling hangover.

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It recommends a game at Croke Park as part of the cure after a night sharing “the locals’ ebullient hospitality” and being defeated by our “ability to hold a drink”.

And the writer describes the stadium as the spiritual home of Gaelic football and hurling

… whose frantic action can feel like hockey on steroids.

Let’s take a look at that.

Hockey?

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Hurling?

Maybe she’s got a point.

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