How Shinty and Rangers Teamed Up to Help Unite Divided Belfast

Sunday Herald › September 05, 2010

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Summary

shinty and Rangers Football Club have combined forces to get Protestant children from the loyalist heartland of Belfast's Shankill Road playing the traditionally Catholic game of hurling.

Shinty, a cousin of hurling, is being held up to children in nationalist and loyalist parts of Belfast as an example of a celtic sport that both Protestant and Catholic kids play in Scotland.

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How Shinty and Rangers Teamed Up to Help Unite Divided Belfast

Hurling is seen in divided Northern Ireland as an almost exclusively nationalist sport. Organisers hope employing sh...

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