<human>: Can you succinctly summarize the text in 1-3 sentences?

Only recently started creeping Reddit on a regular basis and felt like making my first post. If this is a repost I must apologise as I did genuinely search for five minutes looking for anything similar.

Since I was 5 years old I've played two of Ireland's most popular sports. [Gaelic football] and [Hurling] and almost always without fail whenever I travel abroad and talk to people from other countries they'll never have heard of them. A player on my team actually had his hurl (the stick) taken away from him in America because the police wouldn't believe that it was for a sport.
... [Though in fairness] I can see why.

All athletes that play these sports do so as amateurs, even at the highest levels. Though there are a few small *benefits* to being one of the best (I know some people that are paid €40 per game for playing for certain clubs - big bucks i know). This means that they all have full time jobs as well as training multiple times per week and playing matches every weekend.

What sport, native to your country or that you know of, do you wish had more international publicity?

One that I'm aware of, though I don't know much about, is [Finnish baseball] and I'm only aware of it due to my brother playing it when he was serving over in Chad with the Finnish.
<bot>: Hurling and Gaelic football are two of the most popular sports in Ireland though very few have heard of them. What great, abstract sports from other countries do you know of?