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The wait is over for Fermanagh hurlers Posted: 5:19 pm May 13, 2021
By Katrina Brennan
Fermanagh have high hopes for the season ahead, with aspirations to get back to the Lory Meagher final and this year to go one step further and win it.
The road to Croke begins on Sunday because Baldwin believes momentum will play a big part in their season.
“Once you get momentum on anything, it’s like a moving vehicle, it’s very hard to stop. We would certainly be looking at this game to try and get a win and get the momentum.”
Fermanagh have welcomed back a number of players this season, the likes of Ryan Bogue and Thomas Cleary. They have also taken advantage of the three player rule for weaker counties and brought in Barney McAuley from Loughgiel, Ruairi Bannon from Loch Mor dal gCais in Antrim and Kevin McGarry who is from Fermanagh but has been hurling for Portaferry in recent years.
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The waiting game is almost over with competitive intercounty hurling on the horizon once more after a long Covid-19 layoff. Iconic Newspapers, of which the Offaly Express, Tullamore Tribune and Midland Tribune are a part, has produced a pullout publication which is in papers and on the shelves this week.
The Iconic group has produced a hurling season preview podcast on the back of that publication and you can listen to it below and gear up for the season ahead with Limerick as defending champions. Featured on the podcast are a selection of Iconic s sports editors and reporters, including Noel Dundon (Tipperary Star/TipperaryLive.ie), Colm Kinsella (Limerick Leader), Brian Lowry (Leinster Express) and Robert Cribbin (Kilkenny People). Limerick Leader editor Donn O Sullivan is the host.
It’s obvious Fermanagh hurling manager, Joe Baldwin means business and after drawing Cavan in the championship during the week, they have upped the anti, and the count down to the start of their competitive season is well and truly underway.
“We’ve only got 15 places and it’s really up to the players, if they want a place on the league team and subsequently the championship team, they’ve got to show now.
Last week inter-county training resumed and Fermanagh’s first session was in Aughnacloy, on a 3G pitch.
“The thinking behind that session is two-fold, it’s as close to a half-way venue with the boys coming from Belfast and that session is a hurling session, so that’s the fast ball that we’re looking for. You can see in the couple of days of dry weather that we’ve got how much the ground has dried up and the fact the pitches haven’t been used, they’re going to be fast. That was the thinking behind that.”