EditorialA hurley, the wooden stick that looks stolen from field hockey, then tricked out with a flat, rounded end that hurling players use to bounce the sliotar as they run, lies beside a helmet on the pitch at Pairc Ui Chaoimh during the Division I final match of the National Hurling League, in Cork, Ireland on April 9, 2023. (Paulo Nunes dos Santos/The New York Times)
EditorialA hurley, the wooden stick that looks stolen from field hockey, then tricked out with a flat, rounded end that hurling players use to bounce the sliotar as they run, lies beside a helmet on the pitch at Pairc Ui Chaoimh during the Division I final match of the National Hurling League, in Cork, Ireland on April 9, 2023. (Paulo Nunes dos Santos/The New York Times)