Dating a GAA player: Finding joy on the sidelines of a Galway pitch

My first crush was a hurler. I was 11-years-old and I had just arrived back to Ireland after six years abroad. My mum and I moved to the UK to live with my stepdad when I was almost five, and then onto New Zealand when I was eight, where, among other things, I learned the haka and how to boogie board. We lived in a house with yellow walls across the road from the sea...