Leinster medal win delays Conal Keaney’s decision

The defeat of Portlaoise by Ballyboden St Enda’s on Sunday didn’t just earn Conal Keaney an unexpected Leinster football medal, it delayed the approaching decision on whether or not to extend his inter-county hurling career.

Keaney has been a member of the Dublin hurling panel since calling time with their footballing counterparts in 2010 after seven years’ service — and he is clearly in two minds as to whether another campaign under Ger Cunningham is in him in 2016.

“I don’t know what’s happening with Dublin, to be fair,” he said after the defeat of Portlaoise in Tullamore. “I haven’t talked to Ger so I’ve just been concentrating on this. Maybe I’m too old to play anymore. I don’t know.