Updated / Friday, 7 May 2021
10:28
Dowling: If injuries are at a minimum, and the standard remains high in this new league format, then I think it could be the end of the hard winter slog
As the saying goes, you wait all day for a bus, and then they all come together . For over four months now, we have been waiting for this weekend. And just like that, there is an avalanche, a feast of hurling upon us.
You can see it around the streets of Limerick. The colours are back on, the chat is going again, people are excited, and there is a sense of normality around. I have no doubt it’s the same across all parts of the country. And even with that sense of normality around, there are still so many things different.
RTÉ Sport Online Journalist
Not many will reflect positively on 2020, and both on and off the pitch, Wexford manager Davy Fitzgerald is firmly looking ahead to a brighter year ahead.
Covid-19 has had a seismic effect on the way we live and Fitzgerald is no different. The new rules and regulations have been a struggle he admits, with the freedom of the past feeling like a lifetime ago. It s tough on the mind when you are restricted, he tells RTÉ Sport.
The Clareman at least had hurling, the most important of the unimportant things in his life to focus the mind, even if it was for an especially condensed season.