Cooney is currently living in Australia and according to O’Neill, he has no plans of making a rapid return to the county set up. With Hanbury also taking some time away from the game another All-Ireland winner could be absent. Joseph Cooney, I spoke to him last week and he just can’t give the commitment at the moment. We feel they are good enough to play inter-county hurling, but probably not at this stage of their development. Both sets – those players, who have been released and those in the squad – are aware of that.”

Source: Irish Examiner February 07, 2020 12:00 UTC