Bill Beckett's injury nightmare: 'The bones across the whole foot would have been shattered'

Saturday's city derby against Glen Rovers will be Bill Beckertt's first time lacing up for a championship fixture in 14 and a half months for St Finbarr's .

Bill Beckett, St. Finbarr's ahead of the Cork Premier SHC first round clash with Glen Rovers. Picture: Jim Coughlan.

Bill Beckett has had a busy and challenging few months on the work front. Our conversation, though, does not begin with his role as a general practitioner during a global pandemic, rather time spent as a patient on surgery and treatment tables over the last couple of years.

Beckett hurls with St Finbarr’s, and has done so since 2015. A native of Freshford, work brought him to Cork city. And while he initially kept up appearances with his home club in Kilkenny, the commute after long working days eventually became too much.