| It makes you wonder how shinty has survived as an organised sport for the last 120 years. |
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| The ancient Scottish sport of shinty is set to be featured in New York during Tartan Week in April, with a match mooted for Central Park. |
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| Some Saturdays in Oban could see more home games than there are shinty pitches to accommodate them. |
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| A full programme of heavy athletics and shinty is on offer too, with a fireworks display providing a spectacular climax. |
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| Putting aside spectator interest, in some ways the sport of shinty is approaching if not a crossroads, then certainly a fork in the path. |
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| Critics also claim that staging shinty in summer thrusts the game into competition with other sports. |
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| They are as different as rugby union and rugby league, shinty and hurling, Test match and one-day cricket. |
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| He also still enjoys playing golf and shinty on occasion, a pastime shared with his half-brother. |
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| Like every other shinty official he had paid his dues to the sport by the time he came to refereeing. |
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| There he will provide a number of alternative proposals for delivering summer shinty. |
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| It's going to be a long road, but shinty has no alternative but to keep right on to the end. |
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| Ross has the demeanour of a superstar but the wee game of shinty cannot give him the context he truly deserves. |
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| The sports club also have sections playing tennis, squash, archery and shinty. |
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| Take Scottish shinty and Irish hurling and divvy up a fair compromise to create a composite set of rules incorporating both traditions finer points. |
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| If Scotland's shinty players can keep their collective nerve in such a cauldron, then they will have truly earned the right to wear their blue jerseys. |
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| They are certainly becoming all the rage and where the Scottish Premier League has led, the indigenous sport of shinty has not been slow to follow. |
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| Hockey can also be identified with other early games, such as hurling and shinty. |
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| If you fancy a bit of camogie, or women's shinty, to keep you active over the winter, this friendly club will be delighted to welcome you to the fold. |
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| Many commentators labour under the illusion that shinty is a team game. |
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| A good man I know says he thinks Scotland will vote yes – an opinion that may be based around the narrow sample of the local shinty club. |
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| The village's affinity with the hard, uncompromising game of shinty is hardly surprising, for this is an area where most of the men work in hard, uncompromising professions. |
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| We all know that the IRA does not like the RUC, but so far Gerry Adams has not demanded that all RUC officers learn Gaelic and play shinty. |
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| There is also an increasing amount of shinty on the internet, with various clips garnering attention on video sites such as YouTube. |
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| People probably do not know it, but hockey is a combination of bandy, originally from England, shinty, originally from Scotland, hurley, originally from Ireland, and, of course, lacrosse, a native Indian sport. |
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| But despite the chaos inherent in those ball-and-stick games, they never consistently featured fighting, said Hugh Dan MacLennan, Scotland's leading shinty historian. |
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| Other scholars say the ancient Gaelic field games Irish hurling and Scottish shinty, popular in parts of 19th-century Canada and sometimes played on ice, contain the seeds for hockey's violence. |
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| Ice hockey doubtless originated in the stick and ball games of bandy, shinty and hurley, each of which was brought to the colonies in one form or another by students or the military since the 10th century. |
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| Other distinctive features of the national sporting culture include the Highland games, curling and shinty. |
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| The most notable use of the language in sport is that of the Camanachd Association, the shinty society, who have a bilingual logo. |
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| As with sports such as football, shinty originally did not have substitutes. |
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| The 'Future of Shinty' Report published in 1981 led to a compete restructuring of the way in which shinty was organised and managed. |
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| They played the first officially recognised shinty match outside Scotland in 80 years on 22 July 2006 against the Highlanders. |
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| The regiment also has its own Parachute Display Team, the Golden Lions and shinty team, the Scots Shinty Club. |
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| In shinty, a player is allowed to play the ball in the air and is allowed to use both sides of the stick, called a caman, which is wooden and slanted on both sides. |
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| London Camanachd is a shinty club first established in the Victorian era. |
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| There have been teething problems since the move to summer shinty, with a couple of teams being culpable for the season running over into November and December. |
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| Hurling is related to the games of shinty that is played primarily in Scotland, cammag on the Isle of Man and bando which was played formerly in England and Wales. |
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| It is similar to the Irish hurling and the Scottish game of shinty. |
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| Shinty should cherish him while it can or he might just decide the game is not worth the candle. |
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| Shinty players are definitely not faint-hearted and the views from the pitchside are often enough to set the strongest stomach churning. |
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| He was made a patron of Aberdeen University Shinty Club in 2011 after attending their 150th anniversary celebrations at the Sutherland Cup final. |
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| Sports such as Hurling, Gaelic Football and Shinty are seen as being Celtic. |
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| Bught Park, located in the centre of Inverness is the finishing point of the annual Loch Ness Marathon and home of Inverness Shinty Club. |
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| Shinty is played in the British Army, with The Scots Shinty Club keeping alive the tradition of the game being played in the Forces. |
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| Glasgow is also one of five places in Scotland that hosts the final of the Scottish Cup of Shinty, better known as the Camanachd Cup. |
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| These two teams put forward their best players to play for the Cornwall Shinty Club. |
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| University Shinty is a popular section of the sport, with almost all Scotland's main universities possessing a team. |
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| In 1887, a historic game was played between Glenurquhart Shinty Club and Strathglass Shinty Club in Inverness. |
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| Since 2013, a combined English Shinty Association side has entered the Bullough cup, being beaten in 2013 by Tayforth and then in 2014 by Ballachulish. |
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