Portaferry "won't be making a big deal" about the choice of venue for their All-Ireland senior club hurling semi-final against Kilmallock.

The Down and Ulster champions are bing asked to make a 640km round-trip to face their Limerick and Munster counterparts in Thurles next month, but manager Sean Young has opted to take the injustice on the chin:

"It's a Munster venue against the Munster champions," he says in The Irish Examiner. "It's not what we wanted but they are the cards we have been dealt. There was correspondence between the clubs and we were consulted on our view and we thought Portlaoise would have been a bit closer to a halfway house.

"We won't be making a big deal out of this. Logistically, it doesn't matter to us travelling an extra bit further to Thurles. Had it been in Dublin, we would have travelled down the Saturday morning but anywhere further and we were planning an overnight stop."

Speaking to The Belfast Telegraph, the Portaferry boss added: "It won't affect the logistics of the game.

"We were always going to leave on the Friday evening. We might have considered travelling down the day of the match but for anything further than Dublin it was always going to be an overnight stop for the team.

"If anyone had said to us this time last year that our biggest worry in a year would be the venue of the All-Ireland club semi-final, I would have laughed at them!"

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