Events
There is a World Haggis Hurling Championship.
Darren Laird from Bo'ness, Edinburgh is the current world champion.
In 2004, a Highland festival in Melbourne made plans to use a fake haggis in a hurling competition there.
Read more about this topic: Haggis Hurling
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