Cathal Barrett will be back, predicts club chairman

Cathal Barrett will do “whatever it takes” to regain his place on the Tipperary hurling panel, his club’s chairman, Tom O’Dwyer said, after the Holycross-Ballycahill player was dropped from the county set-up for disciplinary reasons.

A Tipperary County Board statement confirmed the bombshell news, not long after Ryan met with his players in Thurles to discuss the fall-out from the recent Munster SHC quarter-final defeat at the hands of Cork.

Sources close to Barrett indicated the 2014 Young Hurler of the Year is extremely upset by Ryan’s decision but is determined to knuckle down, regain fitness, and regain a squad place.