Richie Hogan: I’ll sweep streets for 50 years if I can hurl ‘til 35

Richie Hogan has no intention of returning to teaching, having quit it to concentrate on hurling on a full-time basis.

Kilkenny’s 2014 hurler of the year left a primary school position in Easter of last year to devote more of his time to the game.

The 28-year-old believes the decision has assisted him in dealing with chronic back difficulties, for which he has taken steroids and injections the last number of years, the latest an epidural he believes has him fit and ready to go against Limerick in Saturday’s qualifier.