Larkin ready for ‘talented’ students in repeat of last year’s final
Philly Larkin is again centre-back on a James Stephens side that sees only one change in the starting 15 since the All-Ireland club final earlier this year, Joe Murray in at wing-forward for Joe Murphy. Larkin is flanked by Kilkenny stars Peter Barry and Jackie Tyrell, big Martin Phelan anchors the full-back line, Brian McEvoy still roams the plains from midfield, Eoin Larkin is the shooting star at centre-forward, while the McCormack brothers, David and Eoin, continue to do damage in the corners.
Even the students, surprisingly given the annual turnover in any college, remain largely unchanged, 12 or 13 of the likely starting 15 having been involved at some stage in last year’s final - full-backs Dara Walton, Mick Fitzgerald, Eddie Campion, half-backs Eamonn Ryan and Colm Everard, midfielders Bryan Barry and Stephen Lucey, and forwards Pa Morrissey, Brian Phelan, John O’Connor and Brendan Murphy. Then Redmond Barry and Brian Hogan, an impressive Allstar outfit in their own right, all saw action last year.
