Cornish hurling is a key tradition of the St Ives Feast and began as an ancient form of rugby where two teams of men scramble to keep possession of the cricket-ball sized ball.

Inside one of the world's weirdest sports of Cornish Hurling in St Columb. West Country. Cornwall. St Columb. History. Friday 16 February 2024 at 6:49pm. Charlotte Gay. Reporter, ITV West Country ...

The ancient game of Cornish hurling still takes place in the county every year on Shrove Tuesday. The game is held in St Columb Major, near Newquay, and involves two teams trying to wrestle, throw ...

A Cornish town has played out the annual hurling of the silver ball. Shops in the town were boarded up in St Columb in preparation for the annual Shrove Tuesday event, which dates back hundreds of ...

The game, called Cornish hurling, requires participants throw a silver ball over the wall of St Ia's parish church to players on Porthminster beach.

Cornish Hurling used to be played throughout Cornwall, traditionally between 'countrymen' and 'townsmen' of a particular parish, but the sport has all but died except for annual games in St Ives ...

Cornish hurling involves throwing a silver ball over the walls of a Cornish parish church on Porthminster Beach to mark the consecration of the church in 1434.

A former Republican congressional candidate was admonished on CNN for hurling accusations at a Maryland man who was mistakenly deported to a notorious El Salvador prison. Sen. Chris Van Hollen (D ...

HURLING, LIKE AN IRISHMAN: All right, so there is an Irish sport called hurling. It’s not the sort of hurling they do at Irish bars in America – that’s called “darts” (we’re not going ...

The town of St Columb Major, near Newquay, continues its centuries-old tradition of hurling.

Hurling, or hurling the silver ball, is called Hyrlîan in Cornish Sally Adams Hurling in St Columb involves two teams, Town and Country, battling it out to win ...