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GAA In The Papers - Mon Mar 7th
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- Published on Monday, 07 March 2011 11:04
The Irish Examiner reports that Offaly’s Shane Dooley will undergo surgery to repair a serious ear injury he suffered in Sunday’s Allianz Hurling League defeat to Dublin.
Dooley, the son of Faithful manager Joe, left the field in the 64th minute following a clash with Dublin’s Peter Kelly and was immediately brought to Tullamore hospital for treatment.
"Shane is gone to the hospital. He has a bad injury. He has a badly cut ear, his ear is hanging on. So I don’t know how bad it is," said Joe Dooley.
The Irish Examiner also reports that the Waterford Senior Hurlers will get specialist training from international athlete Kelly Proper.
Proper, from the Ferrybank AC club, competed for Ireland in the long jump and 200m in the European Indoor Championships in Paris, has agreed to help the Déise with their Championship preparations.
"I am helping out with Waterford hurlers for a couple of weeks,” said Proper.
"I will be just helping out with technique and stuff like that. Hopefully they’ll have a good season as well."
A story in the Irish Times suggests that Donegal’s Leo McLoone is a major doubt for the Ulster GAA Football Senior Championship opener against Antrim on May 15 after sustaining a broken leg in a Club game on Sunday.
The 21-year-old suffered the terrible injury while playing for Naomh Connaill in the Comortas Peile na Gaeltachta clash with Termon.
Cork hurling boss Denis Walsh has told the Irish Times that the Rebels’ Allianz League win over Galway leaves them in the running to make the final of the competition for the second successive year.
“It was obvious that if we were beaten here it was a Galway-Kilkenny final – that’s the way it was heading,” said Walsh.
“By winning we have opened it up for ourselves and for other teams as well. Galway took the initiative at half-time and they are hard to claw back when they get moving like that. The most positive thing I took out of it was we had the hunger, the attitude and the hurling to get out of it. That could easily have slipped into a one-point defeat or a draw.”
Speaking to the Irish Independent, Offaly manager Joe Dooley has conceded that his side is now in a relegation battle following their Allianz Hurling League defeat to Dublin on Sunday.
"We're in a big battle to stay in Division 1 now," said Dooley. "It's probably between ourselves and Wexford at the minute.
"We don't like to lose at home in Tullamore by this kind of margin at any time. But we've just got to pick up the pieces."