Boost for Galway as Glynn back on home turf for summer

Galway’s defence of the Liam MacCarthy Cup has been handed a timely pre-championship boost with the news that attacker Jonathan Glynn will be based in Ireland for the summer and, therefore, available for the county’s summer campaign.

Glynn was based in New York for most of last year, flying back to Ireland regularly to play for the county hurlers while setting up base on this side of the Atlantic from mid-summer on in the wake of Galway’s Leinster final victory.

“He showed massive desire last year to come back,” said Galway manager Micheal Donoghue yesterday at the launch of the 2018 Leinster Hurling Championship. “It’s probably not an ideal situation where he was going back and forth.