Wexford's star attacker Redmond Barry will miss out on the county's national football league campaign.
Barry, who is due to get married early next month, is spending the next three months on a voyage around the World.
One of the county's top forwards during their marvellous run to the All-Ireland senior football semi-final and lifting the Division 3 league title, the absence of Barry is a severe blow to Manager Jason Ryan.
Wexford are back in Division 2 of the league next season and will have Armagh as their first outing.
An ever present in the Wexford side over the past nine seasons, the decision of Barry to take time out, comes at a stage when Ryan will be hoping to copper fasten his sides Division 2 status in preparation for the championship, when the eyes of the country will be on the model county boys to see if they can build on their fairy tale story of 2008.
However, Ryan has received a real boost, in that Castletown's Diarmuid Kinsella, has returned from Hong Kong after completing a two year work contract.
Kinsella was one of the outstanding footballers in the county before his emigration. Now Ryan is hoping that he can reach the standard of fitness required for inter-county football over the coming months.
Meanwhile Derek Hayden has returned to the Carlow senior football set-up.
Hayden, who took a year out of inter-county football last year, has been lured back to the fold by new Manager Luke Dempsey.
Formerly of Eire Og, Hayden now plays his club football with laois side Arles-Killeen.
