Andrew Shore has spoken of his relief at having a 48-week ban lifted.

The defender was hit with the huge suspension for unwittingly playing illegally in an All-Britain junior hurling game last October. But following a number of appeals, the ban was eventually overturned and he was able to rejoin the Wexford hurling panel in February.

"Of course I was worried," he said in the Irish Mirror.

"It was looking as if I was going to be out of the sport I love for a year. I was training on my own, which is very, very tough. Especially when you know that lads are inside working hard. I was obviously worried, but what kept me going was concentrating on doing that training myself and that if I got a chance, that I would be ready to go back in straight away."

The 25-year-old added: "I had to do what I had to do to get back. I had to go here and there. You have to respect the GAA too. They have rules. I just had to go wherever I had to go to try and get off the thing. The cost wasn't going to come into it."

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