Continental Europe
Competition at club level is growing in continental 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.
Brussels has had a hurling team, Craobh Rua, for over 3 years and has recently formed a camogie team. Craobh Rua competes in, and in 2006 jointly won, the European Hurling Cup.
In August 2007, Camogie players from clubs in Brussels, Luxembourg and Zurich became the first Co. Europe Camogie team, and participated in the Gala All Ireland Junior B Camogie Championship. This was the first European team in any code to be admitted to an All Ireland Championship. In September 2007, the first Camogie match at a European Hurling Tournament took place in Den Haag, with a hard fought match between Brussels and Luxembourg, in which Brussels were eventually victorious. It is envisaged that the first European Camogie Championship will take place in 2008.
There are several clubs currently active in the European Hurling League which is administered by the European County Board. They include Brussels, Belgium; Den Haag, the Netherlands; Luxembourg, Luxembourg; Munich, Germany; Paris, France and Zurich, Switzerland.
The current champions of European Hurling are Zürich Inneoin, who are also the only team to have won the competition 3 times in a row.
Read more about this topic: Hurling Outside Ireland
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