McKenzie-Smith to miss rest of season

KILDARE forward Stuart McKenzie-Smith looks set to miss the rest of the championship after dislocating his elbow in an incident in Newbridge on Sunday night.

The Sarsfields player is believed to have suffered the injury on the town’s main street just hours after appearing as a substitute for the county in their disappointing 11-point defeat to Laois at Croke Park.

McKenzie-Smith was a key part of the Kildare side that narrowly lost the 2003 Leinster final to Laois before taking last season off to spend a year in Canada.

He began the championship playing as corner-forward against Wicklow last month but began the last two games against Westmeath and Laois on the bench.

Better news for Kildare is the fact that Eamon Callaghan - another man who featured as a substitute at the weekend - did not fracture an ankle as was first feared.