Daly sweats over fitness of damaged Dubs

DUBLIN hurling manager Anthony Daly hopes injuries sustained in his side’s win over Wexford in the Leinster SHC semi-final last Saturday clear up before they play Kilkenny in the provincial decider, but there isn’t much time for recovery.

“We only have a couple of weeks and there’re a fair few bangs,” said Daly yesterday. “You really only have three training sessions.

“Alan McCrabbe had a scan yesterday, while Liam Ryan we took a chance on last Saturday. It would have been tempting to throw him in but the advice was that he could last 15 minutes last weekend but his injury could go again, whereas if we didn’t use him he might be okay for the final.