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14th September 2018
03:25pm BST

Here are a few tips for incoming freshers from those with hurls still in their hands on how to keep in between on the straight and narrow and in between the four white lines.
"First week in DCU, I looked for the hurling stand, found it and signed up straight away. We were down for trials straight away that week."
"There wasn't too many at the first training, I was pucking with a Donegal lad and I was thinking to myself, 'what is hurling going to be like here at all?' But things improved, we had a panel of 26 by the end of the year and we all bonded together after a while. There's lads in your lectures, in the dressing room before and after training - that's where you get to know lads.By final year, he was living with those teammates.
"I was called into the Wexford seniors in first year. You've a decision to make. I had to get a bus across to the southside of the city before getting a lift down to Wexford. You'd be leaving early and you wouldn't be back until late that night but that's what you want to do, it's your decision and you will get the rewards from it."
"I found the best way to get yourself ready for that was getting into a routine. If I was lazy some mornings and slept in, I was wrecked the whole day. It's about getting up early, getting on top of your college work, going to your lectures and that. It's important to have a good healthy diet, I went to the canteen a lot in DCU, you'd get a big dinner there," he said.That'd set a man up for the day.
"A few of us were on county and club panels in my house and that makes some difference. We went to the gym together, we took turns cooking healthy dinners. It's so much handier when lads around you are making the same sacrifices."Foley agrees.
"Yeah you'd miss out on nights out and that and it can be tough seeing other lads going out the whole time and making trips away, but the important thing is to have lads in the same boat with you, like-minded people, then it's a lot easier.
"The sacrifice is always worth it in the end when those big games come around, that buzz and that feeling when you get to play in Wexford Park or something like that," says Foley.
"I knew what I was training for. I love training with Tipperary and you'd be dreaming about those big days with the county and if you won a Munster championship or an All-Ireland, imagine how good the nights out would be then," said Hogan.
"It's not as if you can't go out all year anyway, you do get chances to do that, especially around Christmas time, and you value them more then," said Hogan.Which decision will you make?
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