Shane O’Donnell is hoping to play some part in Clare’s All-Ireland SHC defence.

Having initially been ruled out for the season after undergoing surgery to his right shoulder in February, the reigning Hurler of the Year gave the Banner a huge lift by resuming gym work recently. And while this Sunday’s Munster SHC opener against Cork in Ennis will come too soon for him, he is hopeful of returning later in the championship.

“I don’t have any dates or anything like that,” O’Donnell said at a Bord Gáis Energy event in Croke Park yesterday.

“I don’t have a very solid answer for that really, I don’t have any dates or anything like that. It’s coming along well, but I’m still a bit away to be honest. So I don’t have a date that I can give you. 

“I’m still kind of working with physios and stuff like that and I’m actually coming to the point where in the next week or so, I should be able to hammer out and understand where it’ll be. But it’ll be anywhere between four and eight weeks I’d say still in it, so yeah, that’s kind of the timeline I’m looking at.”

The Éire Óg clubman also dispelled recent reports that he had already returned to collective training.

“I was doing physio in Dublin,” he clarified.

“I mean, if you consider that training, then maybe I was training but, no, it wasn’t with the panel or anything.”

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