O’Brien returns to Tipp line-up

JOHN O’BRIEN has been drafted into the Tipperary team for Sunday’s All-Ireland semi-final against Waterford in the only change from the side that defeated Galway in the quarter-final.

O’Brien returns to the starting 15 at left half-forward in place of his Toomevara clubmate David Young as Shane McGrath switches to midfield.

Remarkably, only seven of the team that started in the corresponding fixture between the counties two years ago will play for Tipperary on Sunday. Brendan Cummins, Paul Curran, Conor O’Mahony, Shane McGrath, John O’Brien, Eoin Kelly and Lar Corbett are the survivors in the Premier’s starting line-up, with five of the newcomers being part of the current Tipperary U21 outfit.