Kilkenny rues ‘March madness’ of cruciates

Ciarán Kilkenny has described as “March madness” the number of cruciate injuries that befell inter-county footballers last month.

It’s almost become a ritual for players to be struck down with an anterior cruciate ligament (ACL) tear around that time of the year and the Dublin star, who damaged his knee in the league game against Kildare last month, admitted it’s a period of the season which they could learn to dread the prospect of picking up the injury.

“Yeah, it was weird – it was March madness. You had Cathal Carolan, Tony Grey from Waterford did his last week, Eamon Wallace, the Gooch, Kevin O’Brien … it was a bit mad, the amount of people who did it.”