Hurling hands - Cáit Devane: 'The hurley needs to be an extension of your hand'

Cait Devane of Tipperary in action earlier this year. Picture: INPHO/Brian Reilly-Troy

My hands are in good nick.

We would always have been coached to make sure any time you put your hand up for the ball, you have the hurley up to protect it as well. The other side of that was you didn’t get much sympathy if you did get a bang across the fingers.