James Barry with his daughter Mila after this year's Mid-Tipp junior hurling final. Image: James Barry. James Barry with his daughter Mila after this year's Mid-Tipp junior hurling final. Image: James Barry. JANUARY IS A time for planning for the GAA player.Ideas for preparation had to be parked in James Barry’s mind as 2022 was starting to get up and going. There was too much being thrown at him off the field.He had started the New Year with a new job at Boston Scientific.
🗣️"Whatever way I put my hand down to feel, I felt this small little lump"@TipperaryGAA's two-time All-Ireland SHC medallist @jamesbarry90 has been speaking about his recent testicular cancer diagnosis👉https://t.co/r0JYAsVzTU 🇺🇦 pic.twitter.com/ARjVh2EgDd“You basically go in to see how things are going and one of my lymph nodes was after growing bigger than they wanted it to, down near the bottom of my spine.
The twin communities of Upperchurch and Drombane are having the time of their GAA lives, a wondrous journey that began in the summer and now in the autumn is showing no sign of halting. “We’re that kind of small, tight-knit community where sport does mean a lot to us. Most of the parish is at these games. You see the kids after the football game last Sunday and the applause the players got off the field. A lot of the older players with Upperchurch played for years and never got a chance to play at the latter stages of the county championship.
“It was great to have Mila. She was probably too young to realise at the time I was gone for the couple weeks. It’d be a different now I’d say if I was to go away for two weeks, she’s crawling and trying to figure out how to walk now. “They say it’s up to yourself. They said no reason chemo would stop you from hurling. I was just told I’d know myself energy wise after a couple of weeks. That’s how I started. A walk around the town, then maybe go for a jog.
This year was a contrast. His body had endured more punishment and trying to make a swift recovery to senior level was not feasible. “When I came back and saw the pace senior training was at, I didn’t have half enough done to be considered for that panel. I’m happy enough tipping away at junior level and getting the miles into the legs.”— Upperchurch Drombane September 24, 2022A Mid-Tipperary junior A hurling quarter-final against Loughmore-Castleiney was a low-key setting, a remove from the high-pressure situations Barry occupied for years with the Tipperary rearguard but the significance was not diluted.
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