Having to take six weeks off just as he started a new job was only the start of the Banner star’s nightmare.
Declan Bogue THAT WEEK IN June, 2021 should have been one of those glorious times in the life of a young intercounty hurler.
“I had just started work and wasn’t really able to argue for paid leave essentially, so I would have taken unpaid leave for six weeks when you add it all up,” he recalls. Buff Egan / YouTube “To give a concept for how long it took, the injury was June 10 ’21 and the payment for the loss of wages was October 14 ’22, so 16 months or something like that.
“It was this time last year essentially when I was at the end of the process of jumping through all the hoops, get it all signed off from the doctor and everything, only then did I realise how low the payment was capped at so then I would have sent an email through our county board to the director of finance, basically, for the GAA,” O’Donnell recalls.
For a fortnight after he was in acute pain, which he rated at 9/10 for severity. He couldn’t look at television or a screen of any kind. “Inter-county players, they just love playing the matches and when you’re actually out there playing the games, it’s lucky for them, it’s worth every risk. It’s worth all the sacrifices and it’s worth the risk of financial … as we’ve discussed, like.
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