Hurling hands: Ollie Moran - 'If you wore a glove it was a sign of weakness'

Ollie Moran says he went from using 37-inch hurleys early in his career to 32½-inch ones

Ollie Moran in action for Limerick in 2009 at Wexford Park. Picture: Matt Browne / Sportsfile

Like any hurler I got a lot of cuts and bruises and a good few breaks along the line - I broke fingers twice.

In relative terms, I came out pretty unscathed but the cold weather gets me. That came against me while I was still playing. Like every other player I’d have gone through games with hairline fractures, but what I found - particularly towards the end of my career - was I got a lot of contusion-type injuries. When you’d start off training for the year, a ball session on all-weather pitches in February or March, it’d take 20 minutes for my hands to warm up properly.