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Barry Nash is challenged by Cork's Stephen McDonnell during the recent Co-Op Superstores.ie Munster senior hurling league final. Ken Sutton/INPHO

Limerick shock as 2015 All-Ireland U21 final star Nash departs senior hurling panel

The South Liberties player was man-of-the-match in the Bord Gáis Energy All-Ireland U21 decider before stepping up to the senior ranks.

BARRY NASH HAS left the Limerick senior hurling panel, according to reports on Shannonside this morning.

The Limerick Leader states that Nash, man-of-the-match in the 2015 Bord Gáis Energy All-Ireland U21 hurling final, is no longer part of the set-up.

Nash, a former Limerick Munster minor winner who was at the centre of the 2013 HawkEye storm, is a highly-rated young player who’s still eligible for the U21 grade this year.

He made his senior championship debut for Limerick last summer and featured in all three of the Treaty men’s summer outings.

Limerick manager John Kiely. Ken Sutton / INPHO Ken Sutton / INPHO / INPHO

Nash, full-forward on the team defeated by Cork in the Co-Op Superstores.ie Munster senior hurling League final, was expected to play a key role for manager John Kiely this year.

But Kiely, who managed the 2015 U21 crop, told the Limerick Leader that Nash has “withdrawn from the panel for personal reasons.”

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    Feb 6th 2017, 12:24 PM

    A talented hurler gone for the season at least. The modern GAA intercounty player is a slave the the setup. If you play intercounty there is little time for anything else in a persons personal life it is all consuming. At least professionals have time to recover, these guys nearly train as hard and work as well. A breaking point must be near.

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    Feb 6th 2017, 2:32 PM

    @ktsiwot: The breaking point is down to the individual, the money monster consumes all.

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    Feb 6th 2017, 2:37 PM

    I could be wrong, and open to correction but has John Kiely just lost the first big battle as Limerick manager? Surely keeping a happy committed squad has to be the first duty of any Limerick manager given the dirt we have had behind the scenes for years now. Kiely has just started in the same vein as countless managers before him. Not a good start.

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    Feb 6th 2017, 2:56 PM

    Its a difficult one…a manager cant force a player to play of he opts out of the panel for personal reasons. Kiely did everything in his power to convince Barry to stay and has a good relationship with him, he cant make him play and force him out onto the field if he doesn’t want to. Hopefully Nash comes round and gets his head right for next year…he ll be a big loss, he still has a big part to play for UL in the Fitzgibbon, his club and the 21s. You cant fault the management if a player simply doesn’t want to play or wont commit

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    Feb 6th 2017, 6:28 PM

    I appreciate that John and I don’t know the full details yet but it seems strange that Barry was happy enough to play up to now, when a player trains all winter and plays in munster league and then just walks away it always seems strange and unfortunately in my beloved Limerick it’s usually the result of a row. Like yourself I hope he comes back next year ready for the fight as we will miss him big this year. I had him earmarked as a starter.

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    Feb 6th 2017, 8:43 PM

    He s actually off to America for the summer again…thought it was best to leave the panel cause he wouldn’t be around come championship in June…what can you do eh…maybe trump will announce no more J1s in the next week and Barry ll have to hang around

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    Feb 6th 2017, 11:23 PM

    If he had decided to go to America why join the panel at all ?why take the place of another guy who might get valuable experience??Strange indeed!!!

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    Feb 6th 2017, 11:39 PM

    Only Barry himself can answer u that…maybe he only made his mind up in the last few days that he was going. Cant stop him…wants to enjoy his summer, only 20 so cant blame him…has years of intercounty ahead of em anyway but he ll be a big loss. At least it wasnt a falling out. he’ s been replaced with Will O’ Donoghue from na piarsaigh since last week…

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