Cats dominate Leinster line-up

Boston-bound Leinster manager John Conran has included nine Kilkenny players in his side for Sunday's M Donnelly Interprovincial hurling final.

Leinster clash with champions Munster in the small-ball decider which takes place at the Aidan McAnespies club in Canton, Boston this weekend.

Leinster won the title - the province's 24th - the last time the hurling final was played abroad, in Rome in 2003.

Conran has made one enforced change to the side that thrashed Connacht 1-25 to 0-10, two weeks ago.

James McGarry, one of the nine Cats selected to start, takes over in goal from Wexford's Damien Fitzhenry, who is double-booked.

Fitzhenry, a 1996 All-Ireland winner, is due to depart tomorrow on a 10-day stay in the Gambia as part of a charity fund raiser to build a school in the west African country.

Due to McGarry's call-up, Dublin net minder, Gary Maguire, who scored an incredible goal from a clearance in a SH challenge match against Tipperary last Sunday, makes the bench.

LEINSTER (SH v Munster): J McGarry (Kilkenny); R Mullally (Kilkenny), D Ryan (Wexford), J Tennyson (Kilkenny); R Hanniffy (Offaly), D Ruth (Wexford), JJ Delaney (Kilkenny): J Ryall (Kilkenny), J Young (Laois); R Power (Kilkenny), M Comerford (Kilkenny), T Walsh (Kilkenny); E Brennan (Kilkenny), G Hanniffy (Offaly), B Carroll (Offaly).

Subs: G Maguire (Dublin), J Hoyne (Kilkenny), S Clynch (Meath), S Kavanagh (Carlow), B Murphy (Offaly), D Lyng (Wexford), M Cordial (Offaly), D O'Connor (Wexford), B Barry (Kilkenny), J Fitzpatrick (Kilkenny), E Quigley (Wexford).