Nine players in Limerick's selected starting line-up will make their Championship debuts this Sunday when they take on Cork in the Munster SHC semi-final at Pairc Ui Chaoimh (throw-in 4pm).

LIMERICK boss Justin McCarthy has handed out nine championship debuts for Sunday’s Munster SHC semi-final against Cork in Páirc Uí Chaoimh and has only been able to call on three of the team that started last August’s All-Ireland semi-final defeat against Tipperary due to the hurling crisis that has raged in the county since the end of last season.

THEY travel to Parnell Park in two weeks still bearing thoughts of survival in NHL Division 1, but after another emphatic defeat in the Gaelic Grounds yesterday, Limerick remain on course to drop to second tier hurling next spring.

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LIMERICK wing-back Michael Carr has been ruled out of action for a number of weeks after dislocating his knee in Saturday night’s NHL Division 1 tie against Cork.

Ahane clubman Mike Carr is the one change to the Limerick team for tomorrow night's Allianz NHL Division 1 game against Cork at the Gaelic Grounds (throw-in 7.30pm).

THE ‘hair-dryer’ dressing- room treatment of one of his under-achieving teams by Manchester United manager Alex Ferguson is legendary in sport at this stage, but if there is anyone in the GAA who would give the great man a run for his money, it’s Galway’s fiery hurling manager John McIntyre.

Kilkenny 1-16 Limerick 0-13

A Limerick man walked free from court today after pleading guilty to the unlawful killing of a musician whom he believed was having an affair with his mother.

IT will be a shoot-out between holders Munster and Ulster for the Boys’ Interprovincial title at Portumna today.