O’Neill ‘touch and go’ for Cats clash

CORK defender Shane O’Neill admits that he faces a battle to feature in next Sunday’s All-Ireland SHC semi-final against Kilkenny as he continues to fight a hamstring problem.

O’Neill suffered the injury in Cork’s Munster final replay defeat against Waterford last month and was forced to watch the All-Ireland quarter-final win over Antrim from the sidelines. O’Neill has been undergoing intensive treatment in the build-up to Sunday’s game and a final decision on his fitness will not be made until later in the week.

“I’ve been doing heavy enough rehab over the last two and a half weeks with our physio Declan O’Sullivan since this injury came about. I haven’t been training or anything, but hopefully Deccie will give me the all clear to go back training. We’ll see how it goes after that, but I’m really just taking it day by day. I’d always hope that there is a chance but it’s a day by day thing at the moment so it’s still touch and go for me.