Limerick’s Seamus Hickey is expected to miss the Munster SHC after breaking a bone in his arm over the weekend.
Hickey injured himself while playing for Murroe-Boher in the Limerick SHC and the defender is now out of the Treaty county’s Munster opener against Tipperary on Sunday week.
Manager John Allen told the Irish Examiner: "Seamus Hickey is going to be missing and he’ll be a huge loss. We were looking at him coming back after the league, that he’d give huge impetus to our backline.
"He played four games for us since the league finished and he was very good, very fit, and now he’s out, it’s a huge loss.
"Declan (Hannon) is a bit like Lar Corbett, he’s hopefully making his way back onto the team. He hasn’t played since February and is training this week. I’d hope he plays some part."
Allen also admitted that he hadn’t been expecting Lar Corbett to come back for the Premier.
"I didn’t really, I have people who know Lar quite well and from what I was hearing, I didn’t think he’d be back."
"He made a decision to come back, though whether Sunday week is too early, I’d say it will be, but if he gets fit and if he’s the Lar we saw over the last couple of years, he’ll be a big addition to Tipp."
