Chris Kelly makes first Championship start for Cork in two years

Patrick Doyle was between the sticks for the county’s opening two games, with Kelly then handed the No.1 shirt for Rounds 3-6.

FIRST START: Cork goalkeeper Chris Kelly has been named to make his first championship start in two years and only his second championship appearance in total in this Sunday’s Munster SFC quarter-final at home to Limerick. Pic: Eóin Noonan/Sportsfile

Cork goalkeeper Chris Kelly has been named to make his first championship start in two years and only his second championship appearance in total in this Sunday’s Munster SFC quarter-final at home to Limerick.

Kelly’s one previous start was the 2022 first-round qualifier win against Louth, at a time when regular first-choice 'keeper Micheál Aodh Martin was still nursing a groin injury that had forced him out of the county’s Munster semi-final defeat to Kerry four weeks earlier.