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Jennifer Horgan: Hurling gives my dad pure joy — the GAA must not take that away

The GAA must make their technology easier to use for vulnerable people, and carefully consider the games put behind the paywall
Jennifer Horgan: Hurling gives my dad pure joy — the GAA must not take that away

Cork supporters celebrate on the pitch after their thrilling Munster SHC win over Limerick at SuperValu Páirc Ui Chaoimh. Picture: Daire Brennan/Sportsfile

In his poem Bogland, Seamus Heaney likens Ireland’s rich heritage to a bog. It sounds like a massive downplay until you read it.

Contrasting the bogs of Ireland to the prairies of America, he describes how we travel ‘Inwards and downwards” in Ireland, whilst American pioneers travel out.

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