Davy: Drink and substance abuse was problem in Clare

All-Ireland-winning Banner boss Davy Fitzgerald has claimed that alcohol and substance abuse was “a problem” in the Clare senior hurling panel in the middle of the last decade.

Fitzgerald said former team-mates of his “fooled themselves” by consuming drink and other harder substances while operating in the saffron and blue.

Addressing a mental and physical health seminar at Limerick IT yesterday, Fitzgerald heaped praised on the current Clare panel for abstaining from alcohol en-route to last year’s All-Ireland final victory.