Shane O'Donnell has described his hamstring injury as "extremely frustrating".

The 2013 All-Ireland SHC final Man of the Match has been ruled out of the remainder of the national hurling league but hopes to return to action for the start of the Clare club championships on May 18th:

"It is extremely frustrating," he told The Irish Examiner. "I was enjoying my hurling, things were starting to fall into place and then the hamstring just went. I was inconsolable for the first few days, but now I have stopped feeling sorry for myself and started to work on recovery and getting back as soon as I can. For a few days there I couldn't talk to anyone.

"My own target to be back is somewhere between three and five weeks. The physio, however, has set a date further down the line, somewhere around four to seven weeks.

"It is nine days since I picked up the hamstring injury and it has been constant rehab every second day. I've only been able to lift my leg in the last couple of days so it has been really limited.

"I bit off more than I could chew there just before the start of the league. I was training with Clare, training and playing with UCC and then trying to get in as much course work as I could.

"I was being pulled all over the place and I couldn't quite manage it all. It had a bad effect on my hurling and I wasn't hurling the way I wanted to hurl, the way I could have been hurling. I wasn't on form at all. The games were passing me by, I wasn't getting involved or making an impact.

"It wasn't until the Waterford game I started to hit a bit of form. From there things started to look up. The Laois game went nicely and then this injury occurs. I am back to square one." Tweet

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