In Popular Culture
- "The History of Ballachulish Shinty Club" has become a phrase used in connection with casting aspersions on any qualification seen as obscure or of low utility.
- In her article, When it's rational to hate a stranger, Scottish journalist Sylvia Patterson wrote that she hoped footballer Cristiano Ronaldo would be resurrected as "as a 5ft 2in winger of a Ballachulish shinty team" in order to teach him a lesson about humility.
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