Galway senior hurling manager Micheál Donoghue has pulled off a major coup by poaching highly-rated strength and conditioning coach Lukasz Kirszenstein from All-Ireland champions Tipperary.

Hours after his appeal to the Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS) in Switzerland, Cian O’Connor was in a magnanimous mood, perhaps influenced somewhat by the festive spirit at the Christmas show in London’s Olympia.