Laois keep big guns in reserve for O'Byrne Cup

Leinster champions Laois have held back their big guns for Sunday's O'Byrne cup opener against Longford - but Martin Delaney gets a first start in seven years.

Just three players that lined out against Armagh last season make the grade - Paul McDonald, Darren Rooney and Padraig Clancy - and Delaney is the surprise inclusion after years of exile.

Boss Mick O'Dwyer will hand the centre-forward and 1996 minor championship winner his first senior start since 1997 and is likely to blood plenty of new talent in the coming weeks.