DUBLIN HAVE BROUGHT three players from All-Ireland club champions Cuala into their starting side for Sunday’s Leinster hurling opener against Kilkenny.
Full-back Cian O’Callaghan, centre-back Seán Moran and wing-forward Jake Malone were all involved as Cuala retained their All-Ireland club crown in late March.
Malone is one of three players who will be making their senior hurling championship debut for the opening round-robin game in Parnell Park.
Corner-backs Paddy Smyth and Bill O’Carroll are the other newcomers entrusted with starting spots by manager Pat Gilroy.
Wing-forward Rian McBride and corner-forward Fergal Whitely both make their first starts after coming off the bench during last summer’s championship.
O’Callaghan, Moran, Malone, Liam Rushe and Paul Ryan are the inclusions in the starting side that did not start in the league quarter-final loss to Tipperary in Croke Park.
Rushe and Ryan are joined in the attack by Conal Keaney and Danny Sutcliffe, who were both not involved in last summer’s campaign.
Throw-in on Sunday afternoon is 2pm.
Dublin
1. Alan Nolan (St Brigid’s)
2. Paddy Smyth (Clontarf)
3. Cian O’Callaghan (Cuala)
4. Bill O’Carroll (Kilmacud Crokes)
5. Shane Barrett (Na Fianna)
6. Seán Moran (Cuala)
7. Chris Crummey (Lucan Sarsfields)
8. Rian McBride (St Vincent’s)
9. Eoghan O’Donnell (Whitehall Colmcille)
10. Jake Malone (Cuala)
11. Conal Keaney (Ballyboden St-Enda’s)
12. Danny Sutcliffe (St Jude’s)
13. Fergal Whitely (Kilmacud Crokes)
14. Liam Rushe (St Pat’s Palmerstown)
15. Paul Ryan (Ballyboden St-Enda’s)
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Any word on his jaw injury? It must not be as bad as cosy thought if he’s giving interviews and no mention of it at all.
Here’s hoping anyway.
Surely it would have been mentioned if it was bad and I’m going to take the fact that he can talk as a good sign. He was walking around at the end hugging people without flinching as well and let’s face it, his jaw-line is majestic anyway so I’d say it’ll be hard to do much damage.
He’s definitely ahead of White for us in my view but if both were missing it would be a huge blow.
He seems okay in Connacht players post match interviews with Connacht Rugby TV.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3Q9YAmSizNY
It’s obvious now why Henshaw is leaving. He can’t get a spot as centre!
Peter Robb is a big unit. Is he good enough to compete against our international 12′s I wonder. Extra choice for Ireland at centre can only be a good thing.
After all the worrying about who our centres were going to be after BOD and D’Arcy retired, we will have a ridiculous amount of options going forward. Henshaw and Payne are clearly Joe’s first choice but then there’s the likes of McCloskey, Marshall, Olding, Ringrose and Aki maybe soon to be in the mix.
And that’s before mentioning other young lads like Scannel and Robb. Fitzgerald could be included but any games he gets for Ireland from now on will probably either be on the wing or from the bench and unfortunately for Cave his time with Ireland is probably up.
Arnold Luke Marshall Ronaldson Mcsharry and Farnell at Grenoble
Furlong bealham and Moore will be worthy of Ross’ throne once he’s gone. I think he could last 2-3 more years despite his age. He hasn’t had a huge number of caps because he wasn’t getting picked for years with Hayes court and Buckley all preferred.
Really happy to see Bealham doing so well. He should be pushing for an Ireland spot soon.
Developing into a super player, looks like the heir apparent to Mike Ross.