Donald Mac Isaac was walking on a beach near his home in Loch Eynort in Scotland on Monday evening when he found the hurling ...

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In Gaelic football the ball is similar to that used in football ... The hurling ball - known as the puck or sliotar - is much smaller, around the size of a cricket or hockey ball and equally as hard.

“The softer-hair hurling ball has been found in the north of ... A hurling stick, sliotar and Gaelic football in Nathan Philips Square, Toronto, Ontario. Credit: Image courtesy of Lisa Eakins ...

The main difference between Gaelic football and hurling is that Gaelic football is played with a ball similar to that used in soccer while hurling is played with a stick (a hurley) and a round ball ...

The sliotar or hurling ball was embellish with the crest of Carryduff ... Donald is a fluent Scottish Gaelic speaker and said he was able to recognise that the ball was related to Irish Gaelic.