Fermanagh hurlers have been boosted by the return of the gifted Sean Corrigan who is back from his travels abroad.

Corrigan has loads of pedigree as his uncle Benny was probably the Erne County’s most elegant player while his father Kevin is a Lisbellaw and Fermanagh stalwart.

Corrigan was back in the green jersey on Sunday when Fermanagh seniors played a challenge match against Sligo U-20s and fielded 14 against 15 to balance the disparity in quality.

And Corrigan is looking good according to coach Daithi Hand.

The ex- Sligo manager said Corrigan was in great shape.

“Obviously he needs to freshen up his touch, but he is such a natural player and has loads of experience as well.”

Corrigan adds more punch to an already potent-looking Fermanagh forward line that also has Luca McCusker, Tom Keenan, Danny Teague, Jimmy Tormey, Tommy Duane, Brian Teehan and the evergreen John Duffy.

“It is early days, but we are putting a pretty strong panel together and are looking forward to the League.

“It is five weeks to the end of March so we have quite a bit to go yet.”

Following a week with no game, Fermanagh will welcome Warwickshire to Brewster Park on Saturday afternoon.

Hand has first-hand experience of Warwickshire when he was manager of Sligo senior hurlers in 2019 when they won the Nickey Rackard Cup.

“We played them in an All-Ireland semi-final in Celtic Park in Derry.

“They have a Collins lad from Cork who is a great centre back and they have a very good spine up the centre.

“They have Jack Grealish, who is originally from Galway, and is a great threat on the 40.

“You just can’t take them for granted and they also have that bit of an unknown factor as you never know who they might be having over from Ireland.

“We mixed it up in our challenge match on Sunday to let all the fringe players get game time.

“Barry McPhillips, Oisin Boyle and Tommy Burns to name a few all got games and the competition for places is really heating up which is all the better for us.”

He added: “We have one of the best S&C coaches in the country in Aaron Smylie from Antrim and Dean McDermott is also in as physio.”

And Daithi paid tribute to team manager Joe Baldwin who was back on the line just three weeks after suffering a stroke.

“He is mad in the head but in a really good way.

“Joe brings so much passion and commitment to the team and he is very emotionally invested in Fermanagh in general.

“That is down to the close ties he has with all the lads and he gets on very well with the county board as well.

“They all have a lot of time for him.”