Part of Outsports’ series on our 100 most important moments in gay sports history. Hurling, 2009: Hurling is an unknown sport in the U.S., but it is huge in Ireland, so the coming out of star player Donal Óg Cusack was a milestone for the country. Cusack is the first elite Irish athlete to come [...]
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Famed Gaelic hurler comes out
Irish hurler Donal Og Cosack, one of the most goalkeepers in the history of the sport, has declared that he is gay in his new autobiography, Come What May. From the book: I tried to go out with women to make sure, to see what kind of feeling it gave me…. I went out with [...]