Galway hurling suffered big blow as Niall Healy suffers knee injury

Galway

hurlers have suffered a big blow with experienced attacker

Niall Healy

set to miss all of the Leinster championship campaign with a serious knee injury.

Healy, who has been in superb form this season, suffered the injury playing for Craughwell against Turloughmore in the Galway club championship on Saturday. Manager Anthony Cunningham is likely to know the extent of the injury later today.

"He is going for a scan and we will have to wait and see what the result of that is," said Cunningham. Stretchered off Play was held up in the club match on Saturday for some time as Healy, who scored a hat-trick in the All-Ireland semi-final win over Kilkenny in 2005, was stretchered off.

It is feared that he has suffered a serious knee injury that could sideline him for a number of months.

Healy has been in superb form for Craughwell and Galway this season and was poised to make a big impact on the Leinster SHC.

Due to the sudden death of Owen Bannigan (father of Monaghan minor player Michael) the Ulster minor football championship quarter-final against Tyrone scheduled for Saturday in Newry has been postponed. With the agreement of both counties, this game will now take place on Saturday, June 21st, at a venue and time to be confirmed.