AdvertisementAfter seeing some game time subsequently against Galway, she came on for Maher – herself sadly struck down by a torn ACL – in the first half of the quarter-final victory over Clare at Croke Park. Advertisement“It is so prevalent at the minute,” Quirke says of the cruciate curse in female sport – team sports especially. So I might just avoid playing Waterford from now on. “On the journey home from the consultation when you’re told it’s gone, you’re definitely like, ‘Why me?’ There’s the Quirkes and the Frydays, a lot of Dillon’s friends, a few of the Tipp hurlers and club hurlers.