Medics warning over modifying helmets after hurler suffers horrific hand injury

31% of players admitted to modifying their faceguard in some way, according to a study.

Medics have warned against the dangers of hurlers modifying their helmets after one hurler sustained a horrific hand injury from a metal bar in a modified facial guard/helmet.

In the February edition of the Irish Medical Journal (IMJ), medics state that the rules around hurley helmet modification will have to be enforced by coaches and referees after describing how a metal bar of a hurler’s modified helmet entered an opponent’s ring finger and exited the little finger on his left hand.