Cathal Barrett feared cost of missing Cork game

An ill Cathal Barrett has revealed he was so concerned about losing his starting place in the Tipperary defence last Sunday that he only cried off on the morning of the game.

The Holycross-Ballycahill man should be available for this weekend’s Division 1 quarter-final against Offaly having succumbed to a bout of flu and a chest infection.

Barrett, the 2014 young hurler of the year, had been under the weather for a couple of days and had hoped it might clear before the squad made the trip down the M8 to Páirc Uí Rinn.