Keating makes wholesale changes to Tipp

Tipperary will boast a much-changed line-up when they take on Dublin in Sunday's final round of NHL Division 1B (Nenagh, throw-in 3.30pm).

Manager Babs Keating has opted to make seven changes to the Tipp side that lost 0-26 to 3-13 to Galway last weekend.

Brendan Cummins returns in goal while Conor O'Brien and Thomas Stapleton will make their National League debuts at left corner back and midfield respectively.

Cashel's Ryan O'Dwyer will make his first league start at wing forward while Darragh Egan, Pa Bourke and Eoin Kelly are back in the starting fifteen.

Egan has recovered from a finger injury while Kelly, who scored a goal as a substitute against Galway, is fully fit again after a bout of the 'flu.

TIPPERARY (NHL v Dublin) - B Cummins; E Buckley, P Curran, C O'Brien; B Dunne (capt), C O'Mahony, H Maloney; S McGrath, T Stapleton; R O'Dwyer, D Egan, P Bourke; E Kelly, D O'Hanlon, P Kelly.