DUBLIN HAVE MADE three changes from the side that beat Tyrone in the league final in April for their opening Leinster SFC game in Croke Park this Saturday.

Rory O’Carroll replaces Kevin O’Brien in defence while Ciaran Kilkenny is back from injury to take over in attack from Bryan Cullen.

Also in attack Paul Flynn, who was a late withdrawal through injury before the Tyrone game, comes into the attack for Jason Whelan.

Meanwhile, the side also features four starting championship debutants in full-back Jonny Cooper, left corner-back Darren Daly, left half-back Jack McCaffrey and right corner-forward Paul Mannion.

Cooper, Daly and McCaffrey have all made appearances off the bench for Dublin in championship before.

DUBLIN: Stephen Cluxton (Parnells); Rory O’Carroll (Kilmacud Crokes), Jonny Cooper (Na Fianna), Darren Daly (Fingal Ravens); James McCarthy (Ballymun Kickhams), Ger Brennan (St Vincent’s), Jack McCaffrey (Clontarf); Michael Dara Macauley (Ballyboden St Enda’s), Cian O’Sullivan (Kilmacud Crokes); Paul Flynn (Fingallians), Diarmuid Connolly (St Vincent’s), Ciaran Kilkenny (Castleknock); Paul Mannion (Kilmacud Crokes), Paddy Andrews (St Brigids), Bernard Brogan (Oliver Plunketts Eoghan Ruaidh).

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