Sat Nav blooper forces Maynooth hurlers into massive detour and pushing back throw-in for Fitzgibbon game

The Maynooth University hurlers ended up taking a massive detour of around 100 miles when they travelled to the north for their Fitzgibbon Cup tie with the University of Ulster Jordanstown on Thursday.

Their plans to arrive at the pitch an hour before the 2pm throw-in were dealt a blow when the bus driver entered the wrong coordinates on the sat nav, which lead to the college hurlers travelling to UUJ's Coleraine campus 50 miles further on.

The match was pushed back to 3.15pm at the request of Maynooth team manager Liam Hogan, and the Kildare college side recorded an easy 4-23 to 1-7 win.

"We were chatting away when all of a sudden we realised we were in Coleraine. I've been thrown a few curveballs as a manager but this was something different," Hogan told the Irish Independent.

"We had a good laugh about it afterwards but at the time it wasn't one bit funny. We had to get togged out on the bus while the physio was working on the players across the back seats, and we ended up doing our entire team talk on the bus."