Kerry's Paul Geaney says his luckless run of injuries has left him feeling unbreakable.

Having made his senior debut for the Kingdom in a league game against Cork in 2011, the Dingle clubman was subsequently ravaged by hamstring and back injuries and has only managed to nail down a regular place in the Kerry team this season.

"It has definitely helped me psychologically because I have been knocked back so many times now over the past couple of years, that I don't think there is anything that could be thrown at me now that would break me," the 23-year-old attacker says in The Irish Examiner.

"The way I been looking at it over the past year I suppose, with the recovery from my back injury, then the getting over the hamstring problems, this year I am the fittest I have ever been.

"Coming through so much adversity has boosted my confidence levels and it's showing in my play.

"Last year was the year that I thought I would make the breakthrough because Eamonn [Fitzmaurice] had just been appointed manager and I knew that he had time for me. He knew the kind of player I was and the potential that I had, but last year I had a torrid time.

"The worst thing about it was that it was two years ago that I went about sorting out my hamstring problem, my back problem was missed and it wasn't until a year later that it was picked up.

"I had been injected first time around and a year later it showed up that I had broken vertebrae in my back. That was one of the most frustrating parts of it, that it could have been done a year earlier, but, on the flip side, I would have missed out on a county championship final appearance with Dingle in 2012." Tweet

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