‘I was playing a scandalous amount of games’, says Cork hurler Shane Kingston

The “massive demands” being placed on young inter-county players have yet to take their toll on Shane Kingston. And it’s unlikely they will do so into the future, for here’s a 20-year old who’s listening to his body, who’s learned the hard way that to do anything otherwise is foolish in the extreme.

Part of the Cork senior hurling camp for the past two years, Kingston has been ever-present for the Cork seniors during that time. The same, unfortunately, cannot be said of his Douglas club-mates whose inter-county careers have been stalled or blighted because of injury.