Why Miss Baseball When You Could Be Road Bowling??

I have a friend back home who loves the Phillies. Like many Philadelphia sports fans, she's a little superstitious. She texted me yesterday and informed me that if the Phillies won the World Series, I was not allowed to leave this country. Ever. After seeing the recap last night, I'm a little worried she is going to keep her word.

But while Ireland does not have baseball (that I know of) there are plenty of fun unique sports to learn about since I can't watch the Phightin Phils.

There's rugby, gaelic football, regular football (I will learn all the names of the English Premier League over the next couple of months) camogie, but there is one sport that I am trying to find it being played and have been unsuccessful so far. And that sport is road bowling.



Cork is supposedly one of the hotbeds for it. And how you can not love a sport that involves hurling a cannonball down a public street?

And just for it's sheer dramatic value, there is this video as well.