Tommy O’Connell has been ruled out of Cork’s All-Ireland SHC quarter-final against Offaly on Sunday week.

The Midleton clubman sustained a fractured thumb in last Sunday’s Munster SHC final defeat to Limerick after starting all five championship games to date. His midfield partner Tim O’Mahony is also a doubt with a dead leg, but captain Darragh Fitzgibbon is expected to return after missing the last two games due to appendicitis.

“Tommy has a broken thumb, so he’s definitely out the next day,” Cork boss Ben O’Connor is quoted as saying in The Echo.

“If we got beyond that, we’ll see then how it heals. It looks like Tim is out as well, he has a dead leg. It’s not as serious, hopefully, but we’re waiting to see what happens.

“You’re going to pick up knocks and bangs. I’m sure now that Tommy is going to try his hardest to get it healed as fast as possible but it has to knit.

“There’s no rushing it – if you did that and got a bang on it again, your year is over.”

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