Clare hurling's enduring midfielder Colin Lynch will return to a Dublin sports clinic this week with his inter-county career hanging in the balance, the Irish Independent has reported.
Lynch has had an aggravated back injury for the last six weeks and is due to return to his specialist in the coming days for an update on his progress. Lynch (pictured left with Mike McNamara and Ollie Baker during last year's Championship win over Waterford)) has only been used sparingly during the national league, starting just one game and coming on in another two as Clare lost their Division 1 status.
Rumours circulated in the Banner county at the weekend that their longest serving player had followed Frank Lohan into retirement, but the player and manager Mike McNamara have both denied this. The veteran midfeilder from Lissycasey is still hoping to be ready for his club Kilmaley's first-round match in Clare next month and has not ruled out being available for Clare's Munster semi-final against either Tipperary or Cork on June 21.
Clare hurling's enduring midfielder Colin Lynch will return to a Dublin sports clinic this week with his inter-county career hanging in the balance, the Irish Independent has reported.
Lynch has had an aggravated back injury for the last six weeks and is due to return to his specialist in the coming days for an update on his progress. Lynch (pictured left with Mike McNamara and Ollie Baker during last year's Championship win over Waterford)) has only been used sparingly during the national league, starting just one game and coming on in another two as Clare lost their Division 1 status.
Rumours circulated in the Banner county at the weekend that their longest serving player had followed Frank Lohan into retirement, but the player and manager Mike McNamara have both denied this. The veteran midfeilder from Lissycasey is still hoping to be ready for his club Kilmaley's first-round match in Clare next month and has not ruled out being available for Clare's Munster semi-final against either Tipperary or Cork on June 21.
A Dublin man who lost five and a half stone so he could help his brother’s charity work in Chernobyl is now on a gruelling 4,000km cycle under the searing Australian sun.
Andy Kenny (29), from Cabra, began the unimaginable trek across the length of Oz from Perth to Sydney for the County Clare-based Burren Chernobyl Project Co Clare on April 5 and is not due to finish until May 16. Andy weighed a mammoth 17.5 stone until a chance meeting while backpacking Down Under motivated the incredible 5.5 stone weight loss in less than a year and inspired his amazing Aussie cycle challenge.
“I was in a hostel when this fellah came in, stinking of sweat,” Andy told the Northside People newspaper in Dublin. “He said he’d just cycled from Perth to Sydney, which was hardly believable for a person like me, who at the time could hardly walk a flight of stairs. I went home to Dublin, lost the weight, quit my job in HR, and became a qualified personal trainer. My brother, Hugh, is a plasterer and does voluntary work in orphanages in Chernobyl. His stories are heartbreaking and I decided I wanted to help.”
Andy has already raised e9,500 for children in Chernobyl by doing three hours advanced spinning – extreme indoor gym cycling based on a Tour de France course – for the charity. And he believes that even in these recessionary times, people can still make a difference to people in Chernobyl who are living a life most of can’t imagine.
Chernobyl in Belarus was devastated by a nuclear accident back 1986 which resulted in the evacuation and resettlement of over 336,000 people. No official records exist but it’s believed thousands died from cancer caused by radiation. Donations – which will go directly to the charity because Andy is funding the mission himself – can be made on his pedalpowered.ie website.
Clare hurling's enduring midfielder Colin Lynch will return to a Dublin sports clinic this week with his inter-county career hanging in the balance, the Irish Independent has reported.
