Stamp can no longer afford to play games

It’s the sort of thorny problem Darren Stamp was sure belonged to a past generation. Yet here he is, a day before a Leinster club hurling semi-final, and there’s something else clawing and scraping away at his mind.

Work.

For two years he’s had none and that’s part of the reason he called time on his inter-county career after a decade with Wexford a couple of months back. There’s only so long you can fool around with sport and kid yourself that performances are a substitute for pay cheques. Then one day you glance at your bank balance and realise they aren’t.