Carlow starlet facing burnout

A CARLOW minor hurler, who made his debut with the senior side this year, is on the verge of burning out after being asked to play six games in nine days.

Alan McDonald from the Erin’s Own club in Bagenalstown claims the county board are not doing enough to help players in his situation.

He said: “The county board needs to space out the matches. We weren’t really keen on playing the matches this week but the county board needed to have the matches played by a certain date (because of the Leinster club championships),” he said “When I was burnt out two weeks ago I was tired the whole day and I couldn’t sleep. I was staying up all night. You’d be hungry all the time and there’d be a load of things that would be wrong with you.