Galway All-Ireland winning hurler Johnny Glynn is one of the toughest men to play gaelic games in the last decade. You can be sure it would take a pretty serious dose of any illness to stop him in his tracks. By all accounts, coronavirus did just that.
Glynn is living in New York, not far from the current global epicentre of the virus. Speaking on the Long Hall podcast today, Glynn revealed both himself and his fianceé Serena tested positive for Covid-19 and are now symptom-free. Glynn described its effects in stark terms.
"There was one night I woke up at two in the morning and it felt like someone was after getting a sledge and hitting me in the middle of the back,"
"That was the main symptom I had. I went to go to the toilet and I could barely walk to the toilet. I was fucked. It lasted for maybe a half an hour and I was sound again back to bed, slept away."
"You're hearing the horror stories where it's hitting people really bad so that's the danger. The danger of me thinking I was sound and going off down to the local shop and giving it to someone."
Glynn goes on to reveal that he does not plan to be part of Galway's 2020 Championship ambitions, should there be a 2020 Championship. He had travelled back and forth between Ardrahan and New York in previous years, but Glynn doesn't sound like he'll be doing that any longer, should we ever return to a previous kind of normal.
"To be honest, we were kind of letting that ship sail because between visas… leaving the country and getting back in, it would be a bit of a hassle," Glynn said.
"So I was kind of happy enough to say 'do ya know, that chapter is done'. But sure look it you'd never know what's going to happen down the line.
"Sure if things were to be like this for six to eight, to nine months, there might not even be a championship at home."
