Carlow hurlers Seamus Murphy and Richard Coady are hopeful Sunday’s league stalemate with 2018 All-Ireland finalists Galway will help grow the game in the county. But while the county team continues to take incremental steps forward, as evidenced by the weekend’s draw at home to the Tribesmen, the club scene is not the same picture of health. Martin Kavanagh who scored the equalising point fror Carlow against Galway. Picture: Matt Browne/SportsfileWhere once there were eight senior hurling clubs in Carlow and six as recent as 2016, there are only four — Mount Leinster Rangers, Ballinkillen, St Mullin’s, and Naomh Eoin — at present. Every one of those four senior clubs has up to seven or so players involved.

Source: Irish Examiner February 05, 2019 05:03 UTC