Updated 21.05
EAMONN FITZMAURICE HAS handed out three league starting debuts ahead of Kerry’s league opener against Donegal on Sunday.
Two of those come from successful minor winning teams of recent years. Jason Foley won All-Ireland minor medals in both 2014 and 2015, while Dingle’s Tom O’Sullivan was on the same winning panel in 2014 and also has two Hogan Cup college titles.
Jack Savage is the third debutant. He played in the recent McGrath Cup campaign and is a former Kerry minor and U21 forward.
Tadhg Morley, while making his league debut, has played 4 championship games with Kerry.
11 of the side featured in Kerry’s final championship game last year, in which they were beaten by eventual champions Dublin.
Meanwhile, Rory Gallagher will give starting debuts to five young players against Kerry as Donegal open their Allianz Football League campaign on Sunday.
Jason McGee, Michael Langan and Jamie Brennan will make their senior debuts for Donegal, while Caolon Ward and Paul Brennan are set to start a competitive fixture for the first time.
Gallagher has boldly opted to place three of the youngsters down the spine of his team, with Ward starting at 6, McGee in midfield and Langan at 11.
It represents the dawning of a new era for Donegal, who absorbed the loss of Rory Kavanagh, Christy Toye, David Walsh, Eamon McGee, Colm McFadden, Leo McLoone and Odhran MacNiallais in the off-season.
Eoin Bán Gallagher and Jamie Brennan played in Donegal’s four-point All-Ireland minor final defeat to Kerry in 2014.
Kerry
1. Brian Kelly (Killarney Legion)
2. Jason Foley (Ballydonoghue)
3. Mark Griffin (St Michaels-Foilmore)
4. Shane Enright (Tarbert)
5. Peter Crowley (C) (Laune Rangers)
6. Killian Young (Renard)
7. Tom O’Sullivan (Dingle)
8. David Moran (Kerins O’Rahillys)
9. Tadhg Morley (Templenoe)
10. Jonathan Lyne (Killarney Legion)
11. Paul Murphy (Rathmore)
12. Donnchadh Walsh (Cromane)
13. Jack Savage (Kerins O’Rahillys)
14. Paul Geaney (Dingle)
15. James O’Donoghue (Killarney Legion)
Subs
16. Brendan Kealy (Kilcummin)
17. Barry John Keane (Kerins O’Rahillys)
18. Michael Geaney (Dingle)
19. Brendan O’Sullivan (Valentia)
20. Jack Barry (Na Gaeil)
21. Barry O’Sullivan (Dingle)
22. Ronan Shanahan (Austin Stacks)
23. Conor Geaney (Dingle)
24. Conor Keane (Killarney Legion)
25. Gavin Crowley (Templenoe)
26. Adrian Spillane (Templenoe)
The piece was updated accordingly when the Kerry team news was announced.
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Not a bad weekend for Irish sport!
Not a bad w/e !! Been a fantastic Ireland 6 Nations champions, Liverpool beating Man U. And then cricketers winning whoooooHoooo
Liverpool and Man Utd are Irish?
And Dublin lost and Meath won in the football.
Ireland never lost a game on St.Patrick day.. What a win !!
Zimbabwe were still the seeded team in the group so it’s a great start to the tournament. Should put Holland and UAE away now to get through to the next stage!
Should never have come down to tje final ball but what a great start. Thrilling cricket
We love winning Cricket matches on Patrick’s Day. Always drama vs Zimbabwe. Remember last ball game in 2007 for a tie.
Ger , I backed them in Cheltenham that year.Corals said I was the only one to have a bet on them so they gave me the 6/4 for the tie
Those previous performances were in the 50-over version of the game. It’s quite different from T20, which is just all-out attack.
And then the article changes and my comment made no sense…
I won snakes and ladders this morning
I won a game of tidlywinks
…and we’re proud of both of you too.
Matt, that means so much to me!
Cricket … Rugby …… We have finally become the Europeans we were meant to be!!!!!!!
Not so much of a “surprise”. After all, Ireland are ranked ahead of Zimbabwe in T20 cricket.
It was a surprise to the 4 million of us who didn’t know until now!
This is certainly Ireland’s Sporting Weekend…well done…
The bandwagon will be departing shortly from platform 5. Could anyone with minimal knowledge of cricket, a large leprechaun hat, and a confused sense of patriotism please make their way immediately to platform 5. Thank you.
Did u enjoy the rugby?
Last bus to Bah-humbug leaves BusAras at 3pm – be on it.
Jesus,I hope I’m not sitting beside you. Anyone want to swap seats?
Silent,did Ireland score many touchdowns in the cricket today versus the African Tigers?
Does the journal have access to a murray kinsella of the cricket world who can do some explainer pieces on the different formats of cricket and what everything means? Would love to get excited about what the lads are doing but the vasy majority of the article went completely over my head! !!
Hi Barry,
An explainer of sorts went up on the site this morning. Here’s a link to it: http://jrnl.ie/1366631
Well done, Ireland. Great way to celebrate Saint Patrick’s Day!
There was a few minutes there where I thought we were once again going to snatch defeat from the jaws of victory, hope we learn from this and make it more difficult to lose wickets.
Great result can push on and take the UAE and the Dutch. The dutch would usually quite strong. But I wonder how the controversy is effecting their squad. If we get to the super 10s I think we are in the tougher group, Aussies, Indies, India, Pakistan. I think we will struggle to get a win there, but the indies are there for the taking with a bit of luck.
If we can get the two more wins and top the group we will go through to the Super 10′s in Group 1 with the following teams and the following fixtures
Group 1
March 24th v Sri Lanka – Chittagong 1.30pm Irish Time
March 27th v South Africa – Chittagong 9.30am Irish Time
March 29th v New Zealand – Chittagong 9.30am Irish Time
March 31st v England – Chittagong 9.30am Irish Time
http://www.cricketireland.ie/news/article/icc-world-twenty20-preview-by-ger-siggins
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