Shinty, once a battle royal between villages, is still a far tougher game than hockey, its nearest Sassenach equivalent.
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Shinty
Synonyms for "shinty" (3 found)
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To the city's large population of Highlanders, it was a portal to home, a place where you could speak Gaelic and sing it, buy tickets to the Glasgow Skye Association's annual dance, squabble about shinty arrange a lift to Ullapool, read the classifieds in the West Highland Free Press.
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