Kildare include White and Callaghan

Gary White and Eamonn Callaghan have been brought into the Kildare team for tomorrow's All-Ireland SFC quarter-final showdown with reigning champions Tyrone (Croke Park, throw-in 4pm).

Lilywhites manager Kieran McGeeney has made two changes in personnel - one enforced - as White and Callaghan replace Mikey Conway and Ken Donnelly respectively.

Former Under-21 captain White comes in at left half-back for Conway who is facing a lengthy lay-off with a cruciate knee ligament injury.

Hugh McGrillen has been positioned at full-back, with Mick Foley in the left corner.

Callaghan, who showed well as a substitute in last weekend's win over Wicklow, has been preferred to Donnelly at top of the right.

Conway, Killian Brennan, Declan Brennan and Philip Hennessy were not considered due to injury.

Kildare are back in the quarter-finals for the second successive year, having made it to the last-eight for the first time last season where they lost to Cork.

Looking forward to taking on the Red Hands, influent midfielder Dermot Earley said: "We have been watching Tyrone for the past six years on television, winning All-Irelands, winning Ulsters and contesting finals.

"This is a chance for us to see how good we are and put ourselves up against the best.

"We were tested in a good few of the games so far this summer, especially in the Dublin game and the positive there was that even after the bad start that we gave them - the 1-03 - we knuckled down and came back and took the lead.

"There were a few little mistakes and we let them in for that second goal. But it could have been a different story.

"We look at all those things, try and learn from them, go out the next day and try and make sure you don't do the same things again.

"I think that we have improved since the Leinster final. And we learned again from the Wicklow game. We let them in again for two soft goals and you can't really be doing that at this level."

The Sarsfields clubman, who recently turned 31, was man-of-the-match against Wicklow and has recaptured the sort of form which saw him win an All-Star back in 1998.

"I'm enjoying the football and enjoying training. Staying injury-free, that's the main thing," he added.

"When you do get injuries, people expect you to get back to where you were, but it doesn't work like that.

"You have to go through the whole process of getting the injury right and getting the confidence back in.

"Thankfully, I've had a run over the last couple of years where I haven't had any major injuries and I think that's probably paying off at the moment."

KILDARE (SFC v Tyrone) - T Corley; E Bolton, H McGrillen, M Foley; M O'Flaherty, B Flanagan, G White; D Flynn, D Earley; J Kavanagh; P O'Neill; R Sweeney; E Callaghan, A Smith, J Doyle (capt).