Cork name eight of last year’s U21 winning team

Champions Cork have named eight of the side which began last year’s Munster U21 final for tomorrow night’s quarter-final meeting with Kerry at Páirc Uí Rinn (7.30pm).

Damien Cahalane, Alan Cronin, Tom Clancy, Jamie Wall, Mark Sugrue, John O’Rourke, Luke Connolly and Brian Hurley all started against the Kingdom in Tralee, while Alan Cadogan, Dan MacEoin and Brian O’Driscoll, also on the team tomorrow, came off the bench.

The Kerry team features five of the team which started last year’s final defeat. Corner-backs Pa Kilkenny and Fearghal McNamara, midfielder James Walsh, full-forward Conor Cox and corner-forward Chris Brady all played in the extra-time defeat, while Mark Reen, Tadhg Morley and Gavin O’Grady all came on in that match.