Damien Cahalane has hinted that he'll hurl for Cork again sooner rather than later.

The gifted Castlehaven dual star is focussing on football only this year, having starred for Jimmy Barry-Murphy's hurlers in 2012, and will captain the Rebel County in Saturday night's All-Ireland U21 FC final.

"I suppose the main factor why I chose football this year was the under 21 campaign," he notes in today's Irish Times.

"You are missing out on a lot of the national hurling league if you are footballing with the under 21s at the start of the year. But I went with football this year, and really enjoying it.

"You kind of get the best out of yourself when you are able to concentrate on one. You have to take everything into account before you make a decision.

"These things are big decisions. I love my time last year with the hurlers and learned so much and I can't thank them enough and who's to say I won't go back hurling with them in the future, but for the moment I am footballing and that's my sole focus.

"For me it's tough enough to combine the two at senior level, not to mind throw in four more teams if you are including your club at under-21 level and your two county [U21 teams]." Tweet

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