Farragher hoping pain will pay off for Tribesmen

GER FARRAGHER is one of the purest strikers of a ball in hurling, a midfielder in the mould of Cork’s John Fenton from the 70s and 80s – poetry in motion.

And yet, for several months, parallel to Galway’s preparations for tomorrow’s Leinster SHC semi-final against Offaly, in a regime that is very personal to himself, Ger has been honing a destructive streak.

It involves concrete, it involves a 14lb sledgehammer, and it involves pain, lots of pain. “I’m doing up my own house, started about seven months ago. I gutted it with a sledge and not much else. It was a bit small the way it was but this is opening it up.”