National and International Hurling
Although many hurling clubs exist worldwide, only Ireland has a national team. It and the Scotland shinty team have played for many years with modified match rules (as with Gaelic football and Australian rules football).
The match is the only such international competition. However, competition at club level is growing in Europe with teams in several countries.
In June 2006, the first ever European County Hurling team played Donegal Senior Panelists (from Setanta Hurling Club, Killygordon) in Brussels with plans to compete in the 2007 Nicky Rackard Cup.
Outside of the traditional American GAA cities of New York, Boston, Chicago, and San Francisco, clubs are springing up in places like Purdue, Indiana, Milwaukee, St. Louis, Denver, Colorado, Seattle, and Portland, Oregon.
These clubs are different from older clubs in that they consist of predominantly American-born players who bring a new dimension to the game and actively seek to promote it as a mainstream sport.