Road Bowling is pronounced "bouling" in Cork, rhymes with "fouling" and "howling". That distinguishes it from other forms of bowling. "Ten-pin bowling" would be pronounced in the conventional manner by most. Hurling is not a very dangerous sport despite what non-followers think. You'll get bad bruises regularly, but serious injuries are very rare. Long-term injuries are the same as suffered in all field sports -they are caused by over-training and over-stressing the body -not by blows of the hurley.
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