THE CORK team to face Limerick in the Munster Hurling Championship Round 1 has been confirmed.
Ciarán Joyce has been handed a senior hurling championship debut, while Conor Lehane makes his first appearance for Cork since a November 2020 clash against Tipperary.
In total, there are two changes from the team that started amid the loss to Waterford in the league final.
Shane Kingston and Niall O’Leary come into the side in place of Alan Connolly and Robert Downey.
The match takes place on Sunday at 4pm in Páirc Uí Chaoimh.
Cork team to face Limerick:
1. Patrick Collins (Ballinhassig)
2. Niall O’Leary (Castlelyons)
3. Damien Cahalane (St Finbarr’s)
4. Sean O’Donoghue (Inniscarra)
5. Tim O’Mahony (Newtownshandrum)
6. Mark Coleman (Blarney) Captain
7. Ciarán Joyce (Castlemartyr)
8. Darragh Fitzgibbon (Charleville)
9. Ger Millerick (Fr O’Neills)
10. Robbie O’Flynn (Erins Own)
11. Shane Barrett (Blarney)
12. Seamus Harnedy (St Itas)
13. Shane Kingston (Douglas)
14. Patrick Horgan (Glen Rovers)
15. Conor Lehane (Midleton)
Subs:
16. Ger Collins (Ballinhassig)
17. Sean O’Leary Hayes (Midleton)
18. Robert Downey (Glen Rovers)
19. Eoin Roche (Bride Rovers)
20. Luke Meade (Newcestown)
21. Tommy O’Connell (Midleton)
22. Conor Cahalane (St Finbarr’s)
23. Jack O’Connor (Sarsfields)
24. Mark Keane (Ballygiblin)
25. Alan Connolly (Blackrock)
26. Alan Cadogan (Douglas)
Great stuff what a great achievement. This 7s team should be talked about more their a credit to the country. Well done
Does it really generate a positive buzz?.Ireland’s 15′s team has been decimated to prioritise the sevens team. The fifteen’s game is what the Irish public actually see and we’ve seen the car crash it’s become.
Let’s face it, like the men’s team in the last Olympics, people will care about it for a couple of days and then go back to ignoring it.
So we’ll done to the squad but I’d still much prefer to see the likes of Parsons and Flood playing serious rugby for Ireland’s 15s team and trying to improve them rather than seeing them every four years in the Olympics.
@Jim O’Connor: would help if RTÉ broadcast the games
@Jim O’Connor: maybe the IRFU have done some research and have found that 7’s is a more attractive form of rugby for young women and girls ?? If you wanted to grow the game perhaps they think this is method to do it? Don’t know, just a theory
@Bert far: Would you give it a rest.
Brilliant!!! And puts the dismal 6nations 15’s performances into perspective- when you lose players of this quality to 7’s it was always going to weaken a 15’s team that was already behind the curve Vs the competition
Was Aoibheann O’Reilly playing?
Yawn.