Battle-hardened Gill ready for another scrap

Hugh Gill has a fresh scar across his hand as he sits and discusses his latest AIB Leinster Club SFC final with St Vincent’s.

He broke his hand in a club game earlier this year, sticking it where he shouldn’t have and the subsequent break required metal pins to be inserted.

Injuries were much of the reason why his Dublin career never took off after helping St Vincent’s to the All-Ireland Club SFC title in 2008. Though he was called into Pat Gilroy’s Dublin panel and played in the Allianz League he found himself on the treatment table too often and was soon dispatched back to focus exclusively on club duty again.