Injury-hit Earley expects Cork to pick up stricken Duggan’s costs

Double cruciate injury victim Dermot Earley is confident Diarmuid Duggan’s costs will be met after the former Cork footballer went public with his plight.

Duggan has been left out of pocket by €7,000 after forking out for a second operation on a hip injury incurred playing inter-county football. GPA chairman Dónal Óg Cusack revealed on Tuesday that Cork chairman Bob Ryan will meet with the Ilen Rovers man after Duggan’s previous correspondence to the county board was ignored.

Earley has had all his medical and physio expenses covered by Kildare GAA chiefs over the last two seasons when he’s damaged his right cruciate twice, even the second time last April when the ligament became un-knit walking up the stairs of his house.