There’s a bit of fuss kicked up at the moment ir relation to where the ash used in hurl making comes from. In particular a story that some of it comes from ash trees grown by Queen Elizabeth over in England will no doubt rile some traditionalists. There was also a story in the papers recently of hurls coming from Poland.

It’s obvious Ireland doesn’t have enough ash to produce hurls so the most of it is imported from around Europe including the UK. The Irish Guild of Ash Hurley Makers (IGAHM) work with Coillte who import the timber in the round and then plank it on request. Coillte have also been trying to plant ash on a large scale so that we can have home produced timber again in the next decade or so.

The greater concern though is hurls being produced abroad and then imported to Ireland. No doubt some of the cheaper economies out there like Eastern Europe can produce hurls at a fraction the cost of what it takes here, and then someone can import them and still make a sizable profit. The quality of the wood and workmanship in cases like this would be very questionable.

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