Frustrated Foley ruled out of Waterford’s league campaign

Richie Foley will miss the remainder of Waterford’s Allianz National Hurling League campaign after undergoing major surgery for a second successive year.

Foley’s 2012 League campaign was wiped out after he went under the knife to sort out a hip problem and in a cruel twist of fate, a similar problem flared up in his other hip after Christmas.

Foley, 25, was operated on at Waterford’s Whitfield Clinic last Friday and the versatile Abbeyside clubman will be ruled out for up to three months. That leaves him facing a race against time to be fit for the Déise’s Munster SHC quarter-final against Clare on June 2 and Foley admits that he’s unlikely to feature in that game.