O'Connell not to start for Westmeath

Westmeath All Star Rory O'Connell, who secured a High Court injunction to enable him to take part in Sunday's Leinster football final, has not made the starting line-up for the provincial decider against Laois.

O'Connell was hit with a 12-week ban for allegedly stamping on Offaly's Pascal Kelleghan in a Leinster championship game, and went to the High Court after his appeals were turned down by the GAC and the Management Committee.

Manager Páidí Ó Sé has decided O'Connell will join the substitutes for Sunday's final against the defending champions.

However, he has made one change from the side that beat Wexford in the semi-final. Fergus Wilson replaces Denis Mitchell at left half-forward.

WESTMEATH (SF v Laois): G Connaughton; J Davitt, D O’Donoghue, J Keane; M Ennis, D Healy, D Heavin; G Dolan, D O’Shaughnessy (capt); B Morley, P Conway, F Wilson; A Mangan, D Glennon, D Dolan.