Cork make five changes for Tipperary NHL clash

Making way from the Limerick game are cruciate tear victim Pádraig Power, Eoin Roche, Luke Meade, Shane Kingston and Alan Connolly. Roche and Meade are included among the substitutes.

Thu, 20 Feb, 2025 - 21:15

John Fogarty

Cork’s announced team to face Tipperary in Saturday’s Allianz Hurling Division 1A, Round 4 game shows five changes from the side that drew with Limerick earlier this month.

Eoin Downey, Micheál Mullins, Robbie O’Flynn, Robbie Cotter and Jack O’Connor are drafted in for the spin to FBD Semple Stadium.

Making way from the Limerick game are cruciate tear victim Pádraig Power, Eoin Roche, Luke Meade, Shane Kingston and Alan Connolly. Roche and Meade are included among the substitutes.

Also on the bench are O’Connor’s fellow Sarsfields men Daniel Hogan and Cathal McCarthy. Due to start for the third consecutive game are Patrick Collins, Niall O’Leary, Ger Millerick, Tim O’Mahony, Cormac O’Brien, Darragh Fitzgibbon, Shane Barrett and Brian Hayes.

Currently sidelined with injuries are Seamus Harnedy (thumb), Conor Lehane (shoulder), Seán O’Donoghue (groin), Kingston (groin), Mark Kingston (calf) and captain Robert Downey (ankle). Declan Dalton serves the second of his two-game suspension.

CORK (AHL v Tipperary): P. Collins (Ballinhassig); N. O’Leary (Castlelyons), E. Downey (Glen Rovers), G. Millerick (Fr O’Neills); M. Mullins (Glen Rovers), C. Joyce (Castlemartyr), C. O’Brien (Newtownshandrum); T. O’Mahony (Newtownshandrum), D. Fitzgibbon (Charleville); E. Twomey (St Finbarrs), S. Barrett (c, Blarney), R. O’Flynn (Erin’s Own); R. Cotter (Blackrock), B. Hayes (St Finbarrs), J. O’Connor (Sarsfields).

Subs: B. Saunderon (Midleton), E. Roche (Bride Rovers), D. Cahalane (St Finbarrs), T. O'Connell (Midleton), D. O’Sullivan (Ballinhassig), L. Meade (Newcestown), B. Roche (Bride Rovers), D. Healy (Lisgoold), D. Hogan (Sarsfields), J. Cahalane (St Finbarrs), P. Horgan (Glen Rovers).