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Mon 02 Feb 2010Yanks getting to grips with beautiful game
LOCKER ROOM:It warms the heart to see the game of hurling being played by people who really love it, writes TOM HUMPHRIES
TIM NEYLON has the sort of roots most Irish Americans would be a little envious of. Sure he is missing the requisite grandmother who came from Cork (how fecund those Cork women were), but his grandfather John came from Ennis and another side of the family from the Blaskets. After a chat with Tim, it seems they were a cheerier group than the Peig Sayer’s gang, they were more about having a game of hurling on the beach on Christmas Day.
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