{"id":458127,"date":"2026-05-20T09:24:12","date_gmt":"2026-05-20T09:24:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/458127\/"},"modified":"2026-05-20T09:24:12","modified_gmt":"2026-05-20T09:24:12","slug":"john-cleary-brian-hurley-and-dara-sheedy-unlikely-to-be-involved-against-meath","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/458127\/","title":{"rendered":"John Cleary: Brian Hurley and Dara Sheedy unlikely to be involved against Meath"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"\">Cork manager John Cleary has confirmed that Brian Hurley and Dara Sheedy are unlikely to play any part in Saturday\u2019s All-Ireland SFC Round 1 encounter against Meath.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">P\u00e1irc U\u00ed Rinn hosts the meeting at 5.30pm of the old rivals as both sides look to rebound from their respective defeats last time out.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">Cork were beaten by eight points by Kerry in the Munster final last Sunday week, while Meath haven\u2019t played in over a month since losing to eventual champions Westmeath in the Leinster quarter-final.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">While both Hurley and Sheedy are progressing, this weekend will come too soon for them.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">Cork have also suffered a fresh setback, with defender Se\u00e1n Brady ruled out for the Meath game after picking up a hamstring injury in the loss to Kerry.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">Cathail O\u2019Mahony, who wasn\u2019t part of the Munster final matchday panel, is in contention for selection on Saturday.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">\u201cSe\u00e1n Brady is definitely out for the next number of weeks,\u201d Cleary said to The Echo on Tuesday afternoon.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/5085993_13_articleinline_3451632.jpg\" alt=\"Cork manager John Cleary. Picture: Paul Phelan\/Sportsfile\" title=\"Cork manager John Cleary. Picture: Paul Phelan\/Sportsfile\" class=\"card-img\"\/>Cork manager John Cleary. Picture: Paul Phelan\/Sportsfile<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">\u201cIt\u2019s a hamstring injury for him. He\u2019s had no luck this year. He broke his hand earlier in the year and then suffered a hamstring injury, and it\u2019s the other leg now. It\u2019s just unfortunate.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">\u201cOther than that, we have no new injury concerns. It\u2019s unlikely that Brian Hurley or Dara Sheedy will play this weekend. They are improving all the time.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">\u201cThey weren\u2019t one or two-week injuries, so it has taken that little bit longer. The last thing we wanted was them breaking down again.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">\u201cIt\u2019s unlikely that we\u2019ll see them this weekend. We have a three-week gap to our next game after this weekend, so that will help. We\u2019d be hoping the break will give them sufficient time to be back when the next game comes around.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">It\u2019s a quick turnaround for Cork after the disappointing loss to Kerry \u2014 not so much the result as the performance.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">\u201cWe got back on the Wednesday and we analysed the game,\u201d the Castlehaven man said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">\u201cSince then, the total focus has been on Meath. It wasn\u2019t like we were playing Kerry the following week. There were lessons we took from the game, like every day you go out. It was quickly parked because we have a big challenge against Meath this weekend.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">\u201cAll of our attention turned quickly to Meath.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Cork manager John Cleary has confirmed that Brian Hurley and Dara Sheedy are unlikely to play any part&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":458128,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[1964,61,60,112],"class_list":["post-458127","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-cork-gaa","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/458127","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=458127"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/458127\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/458128"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=458127"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=458127"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=458127"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}