{"id":502254,"date":"2026-06-16T09:47:11","date_gmt":"2026-06-16T09:47:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/502254\/"},"modified":"2026-06-16T09:47:11","modified_gmt":"2026-06-16T09:47:11","slug":"darragh-fitzgibbon-hurling-takes-a-back-seat-to-health","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/502254\/","title":{"rendered":"Darragh Fitzgibbon: hurling takes a back seat to health"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"\">Cork hurling captain Darragh Fitzgibbon is as yet unsure if he will feature in Sunday\u2019s All-Ireland SHC quarter-final with Offaly at FBD Semple Stadium (3.30pm).<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">However, the Charleville man is glad to be close to a return to action so soon after a bout of appendicitis which ruled him out of the Munster SHC win over Clare and the provincial final defeat to Limerick.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">Stomach pains on Thursday, May 14 led to an appendectomy that weekend \u2013 naturally, there were fears that his first season as skipper might be prematurely over.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">\u201cAll those scenarios, myself and Dr Adrian Murphy went through with the surgeon,\u201d he said at an event marking eir&#8217;s continued sponsorship of the All-Ireland SHC.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">\u201cAt the end of the day, your health is your health and it had to come out. So, I had no decision really to make. And it all kind of happened in a little bit of a whirlwind. <\/p>\n<p class=\"\">\u201cI thought I had a bug going to training, and next thing I was on the road to CUH to see if I needed to get my appendix out. And then I had to, two or three hours later. So yeah, at the end of the day, he explained the scenarios to me. <\/p>\n<p class=\"\">\u201cAnd what you\u2019re explained a serious enough situation like that, hurling decisions kind of go out the window and a decision just had to be made to get rid of it.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/5120253_4_articleinlinemobile_3438672.jpg\" alt=\"Darragh Fitzgibbon celebrates a late point during Cork's Munster SHC win over Limerick in April. Picture:\u00a0Ray McManus\/Sportsfile\" title=\"Darragh Fitzgibbon celebrates a late point during Cork's Munster SHC win over Limerick in April. Picture:\u00a0Ray McManus\/Sportsfile\" class=\"card-img\"\/>Darragh Fitzgibbon celebrates a late point during Cork&#8217;s Munster SHC win over Limerick in April. Picture:\u00a0Ray McManus\/Sportsfile<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">In terms of a recovery in time for the weekend, Fitzgibbon is not making any rash predictions.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">\u201cObviously I\u2019m still in that five- and six-week [recovery] period,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">\u201cI\u2019m back doing more than I did previous to the Munster final, but we still have a week of training left. We\u2019ll have to see how Tuesday and Thursday go. I\u2019ll try my best obviously to get back for it, but we\u2019ll see how it goes after Thursday night.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">\u201cI haven\u2019t done any full session yet. That kind of wasn\u2019t in my schedule. I probably still am on track, but just see how it goes.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>                eir Ambassador Darragh Fitzgibbon marking\u202feir\u2019s continued support of the GAA All\u2011Ireland Senior Hurling Championship and the fourth year of the Poc Tapa Challenge, a competition open to every GAA club in the country, where the fastest team wins \u20ac5,000 for their club and the chance to play in Croke Park on semi\u2011final day. To enter, visit @eir.Ireland on Instagram. eir is recognised by Opensignal as having Ireland\u2019s No.1 5G network coverage. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Cork hurling captain Darragh Fitzgibbon is as yet unsure if he will feature in Sunday\u2019s All-Ireland SHC quarter-final&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":502255,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[169823,1964,61,60,112],"class_list":["post-502254","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-echo-instagram","tag-cork-gaa","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/502254","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=502254"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/502254\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/502255"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=502254"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=502254"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=502254"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}