Synthetic hurleys gaining ground

Twelve months on from revealing he used a synthetic hurley, Ryan O’Dwyer is still playing with the Cúl Tec product and swears by it.

Others have followed suit with O’Dwyer’s Dublin team-mate Johnny McCaffrey using it, if only for the first few minutes of games.

Keen to avoid his regular ash hurleys being broken, he has the more resilient Cúl Tec hurley in his hands for the throw-in before exchanging it at the next break in play.