Last Thursday I got to see this performance of Irish arts put on by the university. They had professional trad musicians come in as well as sean-nós singers (signers who sings in Irish) and dancers. It was a very cool and a very authentic version of Irish arts.
That weekend I went south to Limerick to play in an tournament. The tourny was really well run with music playing and food served all day. We played mostly Irish teams though there was a team from UK and Amsterdam. We played well and ended up 9th out of about 19 teams. For the finals we got to see this Irish club team play this UK team with a lot of players from the Great Britain Worlds team. It was the most beautiful ultimate I have seen in my life. Most mind blowing was that the girls has way better throws than the guys. This one girl, # 14, absolutely blew my mind. At one point it would look like she was going to take an easy dump throw, the next she throws a huge break throw the width of the field for a score. Unbelievable.
Limerick is sort of a working class city. It used to be called the 'Stab City', but has been cleaned up a bit more. No one got stabbed but i kept my guard up the whole time.
The Great Britain team
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