David Burke: ‘I don’t think a sweeper is going to win you an All-Ireland’

Galway hurling captain David Burke doesn’t believe any team employing a sweeper will lift Liam MacCarthy and has claimed Waterford could benefit from not having Tadhg De Búrca available for next month’s All-Ireland semi-final against Cork.

Burke isn’t a fan of the seventh defender and having had to negotiate packed defences against Offaly and Wexford during Galway’s successful Leinster campaign, he’s looking forward to the “pure orthodox” formation Tipperary will bring to their All-Ireland semi-final meeting on August 6.

Cork and Waterford square off a week later, with De Búrca set to miss that fixture due to the red card he picked up for interfering with the faceguard of Wexford’s Harry Kehoe last weekend.