Hurling Hands: Gary Kirby - ‘I broke my collarbone. The treatment was to put me in corner forward’

Hurler Gary Kirby’s hands were strong from his work as a welder-fitter in a steelworks.

I got quite a few broken bones, here and there, but, in those days, you’d play on most of the time. I remember playing a club game with Patrickswell, one time, and I broke my collarbone, not to mind my finger, and I was sent into corner-forward.