U21 player workload is ‘madness’, says Ollie Moran

Former Limerick captain Ollie Moran believes the fixtures pile-up heaped on three of the county’s best up-and-coming hurlers proves “the player is at the bottom of the food chain”.

Moran’s Ahane clubmate Tom Morrissey and Doon pair Richie English and Darragh O’Donovan, all members of last year’s All-Ireland U21 winning team, face a gauntlet of games this month.

After the trio were involved in Saturday’s Division 1B win over Wexford, Morrissey found himself opposing English and O’Donovan in an U21 championship game on Monday. Although English and O’Donovan did not feature in Mary I’s Fitzgibbon Cup quarter-final win over GMIT on Tuesday, forward Morrissey was in the UL team that toppled CIT yesterday.