Cork remain unchanged for All-Ireland SHC final against Tipp

Seamus Harnedy and Cormac O'Brien are named on the Cork bench.

Cork also went with the same side for last year’s final against Clare that began the semi-final win over Limerick.

Seamus Harnedy and Cormac O’Brien have been named on the Cork bench as manager Pat Ryan has opted to go with the same starting team that beat Dublin for Sunday’s All-Ireland SHC final against Tipperary.

Fit-again Harnedy of St Ita’s and Newtownshandrum’s O’Brien are among the substitutes and they come in for Ethan Twomey and Jack O’Connor. Veteran Harnedy was ruled out of the semi-final with a hamstring issue, while O’Brien is returning from a quad issue.

Cork also went with the same side for last year’s final against Clare that began the semi-final win over Limerick. Diarmuid Healy for Harnedy is the one change from that side that lost out to Clare in extra-time 12 months ago.

All but two of the 15 who began the Munster SHC win over Tipperary in April are set to start. For Twomey and Harnedy in come Shane Barrett, who was suspended for that game, and Healy.

Sunday will mark Patrick Horgan’s fifth All-Ireland final start including the 2013 All-Ireland final replay. His Glen Rovers club-mate Rob Downey is hoping to become the first man from the club to lift aloft the Liam MacCarthy Cup since Tomás Mulcahy in 1990.

As was the case for the semi-final, the extended panel members will be permitted to tog out for the decider. Tipperary are due to name their team around 10am on Friday morning.

Extra panel members: Cathal McCarthy (Sarsfields), Daniel Hogan (Sarsfields), Darragh Flynn (Ballygiblin), Darragh O’Sullivan (Ballinhassig), Eoin Roche (Bride Rovers), Ethan Twomey (St Finbarrs), Jack Cahalane (St Finbarrs), Jack O’Connor (Sarsfields), Micheál Mullins (Glen Rovers), Pádraig Power (Blarney), Robbie Cotter (Blackrock), William Buckley (St Finbarrs).