Cork make five changes for Tipperary NHL clash

TEAM NEWS: Cork’s announced team to face Tipperary in Saturday’s Allianz Hurling Division 1A game shows five changes from the side that drew with Limerick. Pic: Seb Daly/Sportsfile

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

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 team-mate Daniel Hogan. 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), Shane Kingston (groin), Mark Coleman (calf) and captain Robert Downey (ankle). Declan Dalton serves the second of his two-game suspension.

Tipperary manager Liam Cahill makes two personnel switches from the defeat to Limerick last Sunday week for the clash. Joe Caesar and Jason Forde replace Seamus Kennedy and Darragh Stakelum who are both among the substitutes.

Noel McGrath is again listed on the bench and could make his first appearance for Tipperary in 2025, his 16th senior season. Therese Loughmore-Castleiney man is once more joined by brothers Brian and John.

Meanwhile, Cork senior footballers’ Allianz Football League Division 2, Round 4 game against Monaghan has been brought forward by 23 hours to Saturday.

The game had been scheduled for Inniskeen’s Grattan Park on Sunday but owing to a poor weather forecast in the area that day both counties requested the game throw in a day earlier.

The Central Competitions Control Committee have now rearranged the game for 2.30pm on Saturday.

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).

TIPPERARY (AHL v Cork): B. Hogan; R. Doyle, E. Connolly, B. O’Mara; J. Caesar, R. Maher (c), M. Breen; C. Morgan, W. Connors; G. O’Connor, J. Morris, A. Tynan; D. McCarthy, J. Forde, S. Kenneally. Subs: E. Morgan, C. Bowe, M. Corcoran, S. Kennedy, B. McGrath, J. McGrath, N. McGrath, A. Ormond, O. O’Donoghue, D. Stakelum, D. Walsh.

OFFALY (AHL v Dublin): M. Troy; S. Bourke, C. Burke (c), J. Madden; R. Ravenhill, D. Shirley, J. Sampson; C. King, C. Spain; K. Sampson, D. Bourke, O. Kelly; D. Ravenhill, C. Mitchell, B. Duignan. Subs: L. Hoare, D. Nally, T. Guinan, C. Kiely, D.J. McLoughlin, D. King, B. Miller, J. Nally, E. Burke, B. Kavanagh, J. Fogarty.

TIPPERARY (AFL v London): S. Ryan; M. McFadden, J. Feehan, J. Harney; T. Condon, L. Boland, M. Stokes; C. Deeley, M. Russell; M. Freaney, M. O’Shea, J. Nevin; C. Smith, M. Barlow, S. O’Connor (c). Subs: R. McGrath, D. Brennan, B. Comerford, K. Costello, C. Fahey, L. Fahey, P. Feehan, E. Moloney, D. McVIcker, B. O’Connor, J. O’Neill.