So that’s a no.
When it was announced that Pat Gilroy was going to be the new Dublin manager there were murmurs that he might try to poach a few of Dublin’s football team that are talented hurlers.
Ciaran Kilkenny and Cormac Costello both tormented teams around the country when they were minors but the most likely candidate seemed to be Diarmuid Connolly.
The St.Vincent’s man has achieved it all in football and has nothing left to prove and it was suggested that after not starting in the All-Ireland semi-final and final that he may defect to the small ball.
And adding to that, Gilroy and Connolly are fellow clubmen and the Dublin star was also managed by Gilroy in his tenure as the football manager.
Connolly has had success winning an Under-21 title with Dublin in 2007 and has recently shown that he hasn’t lost it.
Diarmuid Connolly isn't a half bad hurler pic.twitter.com/aOrzba5icf
— Darragh Culhane (@DarraghCulhane) October 11, 2017
Yep, not bad at all pic.twitter.com/f7bd9OzxIk
— Darragh Culhane (@DarraghCulhane) October 11, 2017
— Darragh Culhane (@DarraghCulhane) October 11, 2017
But Connolly was quick to quash the rumours ahead of Dublin championship semi-final against St.Judes:
“I’m 30 this year…in my mind’s eye I probably would have been able to do it if I went and picked hurling at 20 or 21 years of age but I went the other way and picked football so I think that ship has sailed,” Connolly told eirSport.
One player that is certainly not thinking of switching codes is Ballymun Kickhams’ man James McCarthy:
“No. I’m not much of a stickman, I’d be much more of a hacker and be told to stop before I touched the ball, that’d be it.
“I wouldn’t be good at the stick work.”
