Tommy Walsh all set to spring into action

Tommy Walsh is likely to make his return to competitive football for All-Ireland champions Kerry off the substitutes’ bench, after he was kept in reserve for Sunday’s Allianz Football League Division 1 opener against Mayo at Fitzgerald Stadium (2pm).

With injuries ruling out a number of key players, Eamonn Fitzmaurice and his selectors have picked just six of the side which began the All-Ireland final against Donegal.

Half-backs Fionn Fitzgerald and Paul Murphy, midfielder David Moran — who captains the side in Kieran Donaghy’s absence — number 12 Johnny Buckley and inside attackers Stephen O’Brien and Paul Geaney are the survivors from that game.