 There is a similar game for women called camogie (').It shares a common Gaelic root with the sport of shinty (""), which is played predominantly in Scotland.The objective of the game is for players to use a wooden (ash) stick called a hurl (in Irish a ', pronounced or ) to hit a small ball called a ' between the opponents' goalposts either over the crossbar for one point, or under the crossbar into a net guarded by a goalkeeper for one goal, which is equivalent to three points.