Eoin Larkin clears up tales of texts and thumb fears

Eoin Larkin will confirm one yarn that surfaced since last Sunday: he did text Henry Shefflin to say it would take more than a broken thumb to keep him out of an All-Ireland final.

But he’ll deny another: the rumour he had told the team doctor that either he cut off the cast protecting his left hand or the player would take a blade to it himself.

As he takes it up: “The story was he (Dr Alan Laing) said, ‘lads have cut it off themselves and played. If you come out to me I’ll cut it off and we’ll have a look at it’. Thankfully it all worked out.”