Hurling Hands: TJ Ryan - 'I probably wasn’t going fast enough to injure the legs, and I was lucky with my hands'

Former Limerick hurler and manager TJ Ryan reveals what he looks for as a rule of thumb when assessing the very best hurlers

Early on in my career, I broke a thumb. Or rather, one of my own teammates broke it for me. It was a club game, I was trying to catch a ball, he pulled... sometimes you’re not sure, you get a rap across the hand and it’s sore, or a bit swollen, but you’re thinking, ‘is it broken?’