Goulding out until March after ankle op

CORK attacker Daniel Goulding will miss the opening rounds of next year’s Allianz Football League after undergoing surgery on his right ankle last week that will put him out of action for three months.

Goulding suffered the injury in last July’s All-Ireland qualifier victory over Down in Croke Park and did not feature in their quarter-final defeat to Mayo a week later. Despite undergoing a rigorous rehabilitation programme supervised by Cork physiotherapist Colin Lane and subsequently returning to action with his club Éire Óg, a recent scan revealed the problem had not been rectified. He opted to undergo the corrective procedure nine days ago in the Sports Surgery Clinic in Santry in Dublin.

“The ankle was still niggling me so I went for a scan a few weeks ago to see how it was,” revealed Goulding.