"There's huge potential there for hurling to develop"
October 02, 2018
Kildare players run out onto the pitch before the Christy Ring Cup final clash against London at Croke Park.
©INPHO/Tommy Grealy.
John Doran is confident that Kildare hurling can move on to the next level.
A member of the Lilywhites side that won the Christy Ring Cup this year, Games Development Administrator Doran is heading up the Kildare Hurling Action Plan 2018.
“If you look at the population of Kildare, it's a huge county now,” he told gaa.ie. “The numbers in Kildare clubs are huge so there's huge potential there for hurling to develop.
“Hurling primarily would be in the north of the county but we are developing the south of the county too. New clubs have started in the last number of years around the Newbridge area in South Kildare who would be very much involved in the action plan.
“Our underage development squad teams are playing now against Tier 1 counties all the time so there's absolutely no reason why we can't push on to the next level.
“To be honest, if you want to go back to the beginning of my playing career with Kildare, we would have been beating the likes of the Carlows, the Westmeaths, but they've pushed on a bit ahead of us since then.”
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