Daly rallies his adopted Tribe

HIS present and his future are maroon but Barry Daly’s roots are lilywhite.

The Galway U21 team that goes into action tonight in Semple Stadium largely fit the prototype of their underage hurlers, schooled in the strongholds dotted around the parishes in the south and east of the county.

Yet the man that will captain them has followed a different path. Daly may now be affiliated with the Clarinbridge club yet he was introduced to the game in Kildare. It was in Naas that his hurling skills were nurtured and neither the lack of hurling tradition or lowly national status have proved impediments to his development.