Cork forward Pádraig Power to miss 2025 campaign with cruciate ligament tear

Padraig Power of Cork during the recent challenge match between Waterford and Cork. Photo by Seb Daly/Sportsfile

Cork full-forward Pádraig Power is set to be sidelined for the entire 2025 inter-county campaign with a cruciate ligament tear. 

Power sustained a dislocated shoulder injury in the Allianz Hurling League Division 1A meeting with Limerick on Saturday night last, but it has now been revealed that he also damaged his knee in the drawn clash at Supervalu Páirc Ui Chaoimh.

Cork boss Pat Ryan, having named Power in his 37-man squad for 2025 on Tuesday, told The Echo that the Blarney hurler will be out of action for the foreseeable. 

“Unfortunately, Pádraig Power is going to be out for the year," Cork boss Ryan said.

“He did his cruciate as well as his shoulder, it was an accidental collision into his knee. It only emerged after we had the panel finalised, we were hoping that it might just have been cartilage.

“He’ll be undergoing rehab and Joe Jordan, his fellow Blarney man, will be overseeing the recovery so he’ll be in the best of hands but it’s a pity for him. 

"You’d be hoping that he’d be back for some of Blarney’s county championship campaign.”

Having impressed in what little Championship action he saw in 2024, as well as in the recent league round one hammering of an under-strength Wexford outfit, a game in which he tallied 1-4, the double injury blow comes at a time when Power was starting to make an impact in an extremely competitive Rebel forward line. 

In addition to Power, Ryan is set to be without Conor Lehane for a number of weeks, who also dislocated his shoulder against Limerick. Add to that the injury absenced of Seamus Harnedy and young St Finbarr's man Ben Cunningham, and Ryan looks shorter than originally anticipated in his forward ranks. 

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