Ian Maguire to make return to Cork football panel

Ian Maguire will make his first senior football appearance for Cork in almost a year in Sunday’s McGrath Cup opener against Limerick in Mallow (2pm).

St Finbarr’s midfielder Maguire hasn’t played for the county since the league game against Monaghan last February, having been troubled by a back injury which prevented him from taking any part in the 2015 U21 campaign.

He is partnered at midfield by Ruairí Deane, another who has suffered with injury, having been hit with a cruciate ligament injury in 2014. In a largely experimental side, Colm O’Driscoll is selected at right corner-back while there are two Mark Collinses selected, with the O’Donovan Rossa wing-back joining his Castlehaven rival, who is picked at number 10.