Month: September 2021

RONAN MCCARTHY HAS made four changes to his starting XV as Cork prepare for their final outing in this year’s All-Ireland SFC when they face Roscommon on Sunday [throw-in 4pm].

Goalkeeper Micheál Martin, James Loughrey, Eoghan McSweeney and Paul Kerrigan all come in, with Mark White, Liam O’Donovan, Tomas Clancy and Brian Hurley dropping out of the side.

Cork lost to Dublin and Tyrone in their opening two Super 8s games, meaning any chances of making the All-Ireland semi-finals are gone ahead of their final championship game this summer.

Roscommon are also out of contention having also lost to Tyrone on the opening weekend of the quarter-finals, before falling to an 18-point defeat to the All-Ireland champions two weeks ago.

Sunday’s game has been moved from Páirc Uí Rinn, with work currently underway on a new pitch is to be installed at Páirc Ui Chaoimh in time for the 2020 Allianz Leagues. 

Cork team versus Roscommon:

1. Micheál Martin (Nemo Rangers)

2. James Loughrey (Mallow)
3. Thomas Clancy (Clonakilty)
4. Kevin Flahive (Douglas)

5. Sean White (Clonakilty)
6. Stephen Cronin (Nemo Rangers)
7. Mattie Taylor (Mallow)

8. Ian Maguire (St Finbarrs) – Captain
9. Killian O’ Hanlon (Kilshannig)

10. Eoghan McSweeney (Knocknagree)
11. Ruairi Deane (Bantry Blues)
12. Kevin O’ Driscoll (Tadhg MacCarthaigh)

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13. Paul Kerrigan (Nemo Rangers)
14. Mark Collins (Castlehaven)
15. Luke Connolly (Nemo Rangers)

Substitutes:

16. Mark White (Clonakilty)
17. Peter Murphy (Bandon)
18. Aidan Browne (Newmarket)
19. Paul Walsh (Kanturk)
20. Tadhg Corkery (Cill Na Martra)
21. Cian Kiely (Ballincollig)
22. Ronan O’ Toole (Eire Og)
23. John O’ Rourke (Carbery Rangers)
24. Stephen Sherlock (St Finbarrs)
25. Michael Hurley (Castlehaven)
26. Brian Hurley (Castlehaven)

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JIM GAVIN AND Mickey Harte both face a major dilemma heading into Sunday’s Super 8s meeting in Omagh. 

Mickey Harte and Jim Gavin after their 2018 Super 8s meeting.

Source: James Crombie/INPHO

Dublin and Tyrone have already sealed their progression from Group 2 and the winners of the group will have a day less to prepare for the All-Ireland semi-final next weekend. 

A win or draw will send Dublin through as the top side in the group, while Tyrone require victory to leapfrog the reigning champions. Next Saturday, the Group 2 winners play the second-placed Group 1 side in the semi-final while the runners-up play the Group 1 victors on Sunday. 

Other than avoiding a likely semi-final against Kerry, there’s no discernible advantage to topping the group. Whoever wins the game will actually rob themselves of an extra day of rest. That won’t matter much if, as expected, both managers put out heavily rotated sides in Healy Park.

With such a short turnaround before the last four games, both Gavin and Harte must weigh up the benefits of keeping their squad fresh versus the opportunity to enjoy a valuable win over their rivals.

“If I’m both them managers I’m saying to myself, ‘I want to win this group because it’s not going to get any easier after this,’” says recently retired Dublin forward Paul Flynn. 

“I remember last year we played Tyrone up there and in our own heads it was that we could potentially play these in a final as well. So you have that. Dublin wouldn’t want Tyrone to beat them.

“I remember back before we won All-Irelands, Kerry were dominating and Tyrone were dominating,” he continues. “We used to chalk down the wins against the Kerrys and Tyrones in the league as a big milestone to say, ‘We’ve done it now and we can do it and carry them with us into the championship.’

“From a Tyrone perspective, I’d say they valued that league win and they’ll be welcoming the opportunity to bring them up to Omagh.”

Paul Mannion takes on Padraig Hampsey during their league clash in March.

Source: Oisin Keniry/INPHO

Tyrone and Dublin met in last year’s All-Ireland final and could well do so again later this month. A year ago when Dublin faced Roscommon in the final Super 8s game -also a dead-rubber – Gavin rested a number of key men.

Eoghan O’Gara scored 2-2 that day and didn’t play another minute in the championship. 

Of the 15 who marched behind the band in the final, just four also started against the Rossies – Stephen Cluxton, Philly McMahon, Cian O’Sullivan, Jack McCaffrey and John Small. O’Sullivan and McCaffrey were whipped off at half-time, while Small was replaced after 47 minutes. 

James McCarthy played the entire second-half, but otherwise Dublin kept their powder dry for the following weekend’s semi-final against Galway.

Gavin is likely to rotate his squad in a similar manner this weekend. Veterans Rory O’Carroll, Bernard Brogan, Kevin McManamon, Paddy Andrews and Diarmuid Connolly will be pushing for game-time, knowing it may be their final chance to impress the manager on the field.

He could opt to give Eoin Murchan, Jonny Cooper, McCarthy and Rock a run-out following their returns from injury, but ‘untouchables’ like McCaffrey, Brian Fenton, Ciaran Kilkenny, Brian Howard, Con O’Callaghan and Paul Mannion are unlikely to see any action. 

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Harte faces a more difficult decision. He knows that if they’re to end an 11-year wait without the Sam Maguire, Dublin will probably be standing in their way in the decider. The best way to instil confidence that you’re capable of defeating Dublin is by actually going out and beating them.

It would also plant a seed of doubt in the Dublin minds that Tyrone have what it takes to end their Drive for Five bid. Tyrone already made vital progress in this regard with their Division 1 victory at Croke Park against the champions in March.

There’s been no love lost between the teams in recent games.

Source: Oisin Keniry/INPHO

But the pitfalls are too big. The potential risk is greater than the reward. If Harte goes gung-ho to beat the Dublin second team and they fall short, he risks psychologically damaging his squad just days before the biggest game of their season. 

Injuries can happen at any time, but science tells us a player is far more likely to pick up an injury during a game than a training session. Add to that the fatigue factor from playing two weeks on the trot. 

Harte need only look at Galway last season. Kevin Walsh’s side were already through when they put out a full team against Monaghan in the final Super 8s game. The Tribesmen looked like they were minding themselves for a semi-final the following week.

They fell to a bruising defeat, which sapped confidence and energy levels. When they did face Dublin the next weekend, they were lacking a spark. Fatigue looked to have caught up with them.

“I think there will be (shadow boxing),” says three-time All-Ireland winner Owen Mulligan. “They’ve a practice game against Dublin before the big day, so everything’s going for Tyrone at the minute.”

The Tyrone boss has been conscious of managing the minutes of his big stars this season. They endured a taxing journey through the backdoor, but even before that Harte was keen to mind his main men. He withdrew Mattie Donnelly and Peter Harte after 42 minutes of their Ulster quarter-final win over Antrim. 

He certainly won’t risk his nephew Peter Harte picking up another black card which would see him banned for the semi-final. Will he allow McMahon 70 minutes to get to grips with Cathal McShane on the edge of the square? Will he subject Donnelly to an afternoon in the close-company of Small or Cooper so soon before he has to play again?

Mattie Donnelly with Stephen Cluxton ahead of their Omagh encounter last summer.

Source: Ryan Byrne/INPHO

Another interesting subplot is the style of play Harte employs. Tyrone’s league win over Dublin saw them use a more offensive kicking game with a two-man full-forward line.

“You have to adapt, horses for courses,” says Mulligan. “We saw a more attacking line-up in the league and the (early) couple of rounds of the championship but they were totally found out against Donegal, totally found out.”

They abandoned that philosophy following that Ulster semi-final defeat to Declan Bonner’s men, returning to the counter-attacking game for their run through the qualifiers. 

“You’re always guessing what teams are trying to do,” adds Flynn.

“What I would say is to win an Ulster, what you need to do is probably different than what you need to do to win an All-Ireland. And then to get through qualifier games is different to what it’s going to take to win a semi-final and final because you can maybe get caught on the hop by a team that you should beat by playing a more aggressive style.

“But the way they’re playing at the moment they’re playing really well. There is a balance between – I know people are saying they’re ultra-defensive – but they’re getting forward, they’re committing men.

“McShane is playing really well up top as a target man and I’d say they could probably click that switch for periods of games as well is that full kick-passing and expansive game too because they know they have it in the locker.”

Trailing Cork by five points at half-time two weeks ago, Tyrone returned to the more attacking model for the second period and blitzed the Munster side.

Most commentators suggested that Tyrone merely pushed Donnelly into the full-forward line alongside McShane, but the change was more complex than that. Rather than dropping 14 men behind the ball, the Red Hand pressed Cork high up the field and forced turnovers, which resulted in McShane, Harte and Donnelly finishing with 2-13 between them.

Tyrone have beaten Dublin once in 2019 using that style, but will they show their hand on Sunday or stick with the usual defensive system? As Donegal proved in 2014, you’ll only get one shot at beating the Dubs.

Gavin’s brilliant management team are experts at learning from defeat. They haven’t lost a game in championship football in five years and are unlikely to be defeated twice before the season is out. 

Your move, Mickey Harte.

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SATURDAY’S HOTLY-ANTICIPATED Super 8 clash between Mayo and Donegal will have an increased capacity of over 27,000.

An additional 2,000 tickets for Castlebar’s McHale have been made available through clubs as Mayo and Donegal aim to reach the All-Ireland SFC semi-final stage.

Capacity of McHale Park was initially limited to 25,369 last week before today’s release of extra tickets for Saturday’s 6pm throw-in (Sky Sports).

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DAVID MORAN HAS fully recovered from a foot injury to start for Kerry in Saturday’s All-Ireland senior football championship Super 8s clash against Meath in Navan.

Moran missed the round two draw with Donegal at Croke Park but comes back into Peter Keane’s starting XV for this weekend, as the Kingdom bid to book their place in an All-Ireland semi-final.

Diarmuid O’Connor is the man to make way for the returning Moran in the only change in personnel from last time out, with Gavin White again captaining Kerry from midfield.

After hammering Mayo in their first Super 8s game and then drawing with Donegal a fortnight ago, Keane’s side know victory over Meath would assure them of a place in the last four. 

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The game throws in at 6pm at Páirc Tailteann.

Kerry:

1. Shane Ryan

2. Jason Foley
3. Tadhg Morley
4. Tom O’Sullivan

5. Paul Murphy
6. Gavin Crowley
7. Shane Enright 

8. David Moran
9. Adrian Spillane 

10. Gavin White (captain)
11. Sean O’Shea
12. Stephen O’Brien

13. David Clifford
14. Paul Geaney
15. Killian Spillane.

Source: Kerry GAA

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PAIN IS NO barrier for Waterford star Niamh Rockett, despite the many roadblocks she’s encountered en route to where she is today.

But perspective is something that has definitely helped her along the way. Always has, and always will.

Waterford star Niamh Rockett and her father, former Déise hurler, Eddie.

Source: Dan Sheridan/INPHO

Day in, day out, she’s defying the odds. Ten years ago, she was told if she didn’t give up sport, she’d be in a wheelchair by the time she’s 30. And yet here she stands, one of the top camogie players in the country at 25. And there’s no sign of her stopping anytime soon.

Her inspiring story is one to be shared far and wide. The lows most definitely outweigh the highs; the gut-wrenching knee injuries, the endless surgeries, the devastating news from consultant after consultant. 

But Rockett knows it could be a hell of a lot worse.

We’ll get to her own rollercoaster journey but first, she’s conscious to emphasise how she counts her blessings for now and plays every game with a smile on her face. She savours every day. Every moment. 

Others can’t.

Rockett works as a PE teacher in Blackwater Community School in Lismore, and her mind automatically turns to a student: Caoimhe O’Brien.

A sports fanatic like herself, Caoimhe played football for Ballyduff. In a match one day, she felt pain in her knee while she was running. It turned out to be a cancerous growth.

Amputation followed and her condition worsened, but Caoimhe remained admirably positive. That attitude has definitely rubbed off on Rockett.

“She was sport-mad,” she recalls of Caoimhe, who has sadly passed away since. “For a young girl like that to have shown all that courage, it’s just brilliant.

“She was so inspirational, she always came into school on crutches, refused to go into a wheelchair, so headstrong, such an inspiration. I just think, ‘How lucky are we that we can go out and play?’

Facing Clare in 2017.

Source: Oisin Keniry/INPHO

“Anytime the going gets tough or if I think, ‘We should have won that match’ or ‘I can’t go any more’, I think of her and I think that she came into school every day right up until she was going to pass away.

“Between my injury and that, I just never take it for granted.”

That’s a mutual feeling across the team, Rockett stressed when she spoke last week at a Camogie Association event calling on supporters to ‘Go Together’ as they aim to break 25,000 All-Ireland finals attendance.

“Look lads, it’d be a lot worse if we couldn’t run,” as one of her team-mates stated earlier that week when they were sent on a horrific running session to a few moans and groans around the group.

“It’s about being thankful for that,” the St Anne’s star smiles.

“There’s always people going to be worse than me and I draw inspiration from that. Look at the likes of Jamie Wall and what he’s doing, brilliant. Look how involved he is, that’s a complete inspiration.”

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She might find her own inspiration from sad places, but others look to Rockett.

And it’s no wonder, considering her own triumph over adversity, her own battle back from the brink.

Plagued with injuries for years — arthritis in her knees in particular — it all came to a head in 2014. Her entire world came crashing down suddenly. Running for a ball in a league game against Meath, everything changed in mere seconds.

“I remember about five yards before the ball and then I hit into the player and I remember being lifted off the pitch,” she recalls.

“I can’t remember anything in between. Someone was slapping me in the face on the sideline. It was just the shock of my knee injury.”

Calling on supporters to ‘Go Together’.

Source: Dan Sheridan/INPHO

The collision in question left her with a severe concussion, but more devastatingly for Rockett considering her past history, a really serious knee injury.

“My kneecap was after coming out of place,” she explains.

“I had arthritis in my kneecap as well. In behind my kneecap, I’d no cartilage. It was a double whammy of injuries there. It wasn’t a cruciate or anything. There were just so many things wrong with me knees.

“I had a big bandage on my knee at the time and I was playing through an injury. It was a freak accident.

“I didn’t run for 15 months after that.”

And the 15 months that followed were complete and utter torture, complete with two surgeries.

“I had surgery in Santry, keyhole surgery and MPFL reconstruction [to reconnect the kneecap to the knee]. I had keyhole surgery previous to that as well and the fake tan doesn’t cover the scars, sadly. Don’t look at my left knee!”

Thankfully now, out the other side, she’s able to see light in the situation.

She recalls another heartbreaking moment from years gone by. A conversation with a consultant where 16-year-old Niamh was told she’d be in a wheelchair by the age of 30.

“I’d be in a wheelchair by 30, and they wanted to break my knees, both of them and re-align them,” she nods, the pain still visible in her face to this day.

“Two consultants told me… the consultant in Santry told me if I continue playing I won’t be able to walk or run by the time I’m 30.

“He said there’s only one or two people in the world who had the amount of detailed knee problems I had between arthritis, reconstructions and everything. I was like, ‘Tell me someone I can talk to’ but he couldn’t refer me on.

Celebrating Waterford’s All-Ireland intermediate title win in 2015.

Source: Cathal Noonan/INPHO

“There will be a day it’ll give up but I’ll just keep playing and trying my best 

“A lot of credit goes to Declan O’Sullivan, the Cork GAA physio,” Rockett continues, her appreciation for those around her shining through over and over as she later praises the team physio Kenny Murphy, who keeps her ticking over with knee programmes.

“It was never about coming back to play camogie. I’m a PE teacher and it was to have some quality of life, to maintain it and do PE in the rain, hail or shine and not be limping around.

“I just couldn’t stay away. People say I’m stupid but I just love playing sport so much.”

There were many a times where she thought it was all over. Definitely in those 15 months, she stresses.

“Oh my God, it was really, really, really tough, mentally. I owe a lot to my family and friends for just picking me up in those 15 months.

“I played every sport; hurling, football, camogie, soccer, everything since I was able to walk… with school, Waterford, Munster. It’s your whole life. You’re going to be a PE teacher, and then you’re told you can’t run again, you can’t play again.

Where is my career going? Why can’t I play again? I have so much more to give.

“Mentally, it was just absolutely outrageous.”

She adds: “There’s a lot about filling the void when you retire and I never got the choice in that. I was just told you can’t run and there was no choice.

“I felt really, really hard done by. Whenever I do stop it’ll be my choice and I’ll know I’ve given it everything.”

For now, she’s happy to try everything and anything she can to keep her going. As are those around her.

“My mother produces these articles on arthritis,” she laughs. “There was a news article that broccoli cures arthritis and there was six heads of broccoli on the table for me to eat for breakfast, lunch and dinner.

With Galway star Caitriona Cormican ahead of their All-Ireland quarter-final tomorrow.

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“Irish mothers, any home remedy that’s going! Orthotics, everything… We’re after spending a few tens of thousands on my knee trying to get it good.”

After getting back with the club and slowly progressing back into the county set-up, 2015 brought better days for Rockett, and thankfully, she hasn’t looked back since. 

“Winning the intermediate All-Ireland meant so much that year — for my family, for myself, that was absolutely brilliant,” she grins. 

Here’s to more of that.

After an historic 2018 which saw Waterford reach their first-ever All-Ireland quarter-final, the Déise find themselves back in the knockout stages where they face Galway at Semple Stadium tomorrow [throw-in 7.15pm, live on RTÉ].

“Last year was brilliant but we want to go a step further,” as she said previously. ”We want to keep pushing on.”

A step further would be an absolute leap for Niamh Rockett, who’s just thankful to be in the thick of it all rather than watching from the stands.

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PARAIC FANNING HAS stepped down as Waterford hurling manager after just one season in charge.

Fanning replaced the popular Derek McGrath last winter and while Waterford reached the Division 1 league final in March, they finished bottom of the Munster round-robin with four defeats from four. 

“This has not been an easy decision and there are many challenges ahead,” said Fanning in a statement released today.

“In reflecting on the disappointment of the championship of 2019 and looking at 2020 I do not find myself in a position to undertake these challenges for personal reasons.”

The Waterford county board thanked Fanning and his selectors James Murray and Pa Kearney for their “tremendous work, commitment and dedication to the Waterford senior hurling team over the past twelve months which culminated in a return to the top tier of the Allianz National League and the league final.”

Waterford also confirmed a “process will now be put in place” for the appointment of Fanning’s replacement.

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IN INTERVIEW SITUATIONS, it’s often easiest to start from the very start. 

Right back to the beginning, and how the player or athlete in question first got into their beloved sport. 

Limerick star Marian Quaid set out like most others: out in the garden with the family. 

“I’ve been playing since I was about four,” the 21-year-old smiles. “I probably started out on the front lawn with my Dad pucking around and then I started playing with my club Bruff when I was five.

“I’ve been playing ever since.”

First with the club, then into the county set-up from underage development squads right the way up, Quaid has been proudly donning the green jersey from U13. Week in, week out she honed her skills and perfected her trade, enthusiastically working towards the breakthrough to the senior panel.

Now in her fifth year on such, she shyly giggles when the word leader is mentioned.

Just barely in her twenties, it’s hard to believe she’s one of the most experienced players in the squad.

“It’s huge.” she agrees, though. “We actually do have a really young panel now. We won minor in 2014 and those girls are nearly the majority of the panel now.”

That new blood has really come in and lifted things in the Treaty set-up, it must be said.

They’re most definitely on an upward curve after experiencing some hard days since their transition to senior in 2014. Tomorrow, they play their first-ever All-Ireland senior quarter-final.

“Thank God,” Quaid beams. “We’re delighted to be into a quarter-final now. It’s huge for us. I think everything since the start of the year this year has gone well; the mindset has been so positive. Declan [Nash, manager], Darragh [O’Grady], all the lads in the background; they’ve done so much work.

They’d do anything for us, and we’re finally able to give it back to them now getting out of the group. We’ve been knocking on the door for a while for sure.

For such a hurling stronghold, it could be quite surprising to hear that the county have never reached the knockout stages of the senior camogie championship.

Quaid with her brother, Michael, at the Camogie Association’s ‘Go Together’ campaign launch.

Source: Dan Sheridan/INPHO

Bear in mind this interview was conducted before the 2018 hurling champions exited the race for the Liam McCarthy Cup last weekend, but Quaid — no relation to the family you’re surely thinking of — was extremely upbeat about all goings on in Limerick at the time. 

“GAA’s at an all-time high at the moment in Limerick,” she said. “We’re delighted to be able to get in there a little bit. It’s huge.

The girls won the football last year [All-Ireland junior championship] so they got huge publicity as well for it. We’re just happy to finally get a bit of recognition for the work we’re putting in as well.

To add to it all, the morning of our conversation was when Adare Manor was confirmed as the host of the 2026 Ryder Cup. Shannonside is place to be these days, she grinned. Another massive boost.

The biggest in recent memory though, was, of course, John Kiely’s men’s All-Ireland win last year — Quaid was in Croke Park that day: “I held the tears in. My Dad did a bit of crying for me, I’d say! They were unreal” — and the camógs are now hoping to match those scenes and drive on more and more. 

“Especially just seeing where GAA is in Limerick now,” she nods. “We’re putting in all the work, we’re training three times a week as well so we’re just delighted to be getting out of the group and hopefully getting a bit of recognition for that.”

Tipperary come as unfamiliar opposition in Semple Stadium tomorrow [throw-in 5.30pm, live on RTÉ], with both sides gearing up for a “very tough match”. They don’t know a whole pile about each other, having not met in championship much over the past few years.

But the fact that it’s a double-header in a big stadium and set to be shown live on television all adds to the excitement of the occasion.

“That’s huge, like,” the soon-to-be second year physiotherapy student in University of Limerick, who’s working part time in a betting office and with soccer analysis company STATS, concludes.

“I’ve definitely never played a match live on TV before, it’s massive for all of us. I suppose we don’t really want to be meeting Tipp in their home ground either but that will give us another incentive hopefully to just give it everything.

“We just need a good performance against them now.”

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DUBLIN AND CORK have named their starting teams for Saturday’s All-Ireland U20 football final in Portlaoise. 

Both sides are unchanged from their semi-final wins. Munster champions Cork defeated Tyrone by 2-17 to 1-18, while Dublin had seven points to spare over Galway. 

Dublin full-forward Ciaran Archer has been in fine scoring form this summer and bagged 2-6 against the Tribesmen.

Dublin

1. David O’Hanlon (Na Fianna)

2. Darren Maher (St Patrick’s Donabate)
3. Daire Newcombe (Lucan Sarsfields)
4. Eoin O’Dea (Na Fianna)

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5. Kieran Kennedy (Ballyboden St Enda’s)
6. Neil Matthews (Erin’s Isle)
7. Seán Lambe (St Vincent’s)

8. Peadar Ó Cofaigh Byrne (Cuala)
9. Donal Ryan (Na Fianna)

10. Niall O’Leary (Kilmacud Crokes)
11. Karl Lynch Bissett (Naomh Mearnóg)
12. James Doran (Na Fianna)

13. Brian O’Leary (Na Fianna)
14. Ciarán Archer (St Maurs)
15. Ross McGarry (Ballyboden St Enda’s)

Cork

1. Josh O’ Keeffe (Newmarket)

2. Michael Mahoney (Knocknagree)
3. Maurice Shanley (Clonakilty)
4. Paul Ring (Aghabullogue)

5. Gearoid O’ Donovan (Newcestown)
6. Sean Meehan (Kiskeam)
7. Peter O’ Driscoll (Ilen Rovers – captain)

8. Brian Hartnett (Douglas)
9. Daniel O’Connell (Kanturk)

10. Colm Barrett (St. Finbarrs)
11. Blake Murphy (St. Vincents)
12. Colm O’ Callaghan (Eire Óg)

13. Mark Cronin (Nemo Rangers)
14. Cathail O’Mahony (Mitchelstown)
15. Damien Gore (Kilmacabea)

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