Darragh O’Donovan, Aaron Gillane to miss out for Limerick

Limerick’s Darragh O’Donovan and top scorer Aaron Gillane will miss the county’s crunch Division 1B fixture against Dublin on Saturday.

O’Donovan, at centre-forward in Limerick’s opening two hurling league victories, broke his finger during an in-house game on Saturday and faces a number of weeks out.

Gillane, meanwhile, had been posting double-digit tallies for county and college (Mary I) in recent weeks and his absence is ill-timed for a game manager John Kiely has described as “massive”. The forward went over on his ankle towards the end of the win over Offaly, a game where he finished with 1-8, and while the Patrickswell forward is no longer in a medical boot, Kiely reckons the Dublin fixture may come too soon.