Cork v Limerick: Rebels name team for hurling league final

Micheál Mullins comes into an all-Glen Rovers half-back line as one of three changes in the Cork team for Sunday’s Allianz HL Division 1 A final against Limerick.

With Mark Coleman kept in reserve as a precaution after minor hamstring twinge, Mullins joins his clubmates Eoin and Robert Downey.

The other changes from the big win over Offaly in Cork’s last round-robin game see Séamus Harnedy and William Buckley named in attack instead of Hugh O’Connor and Barry Walsh.

The latter is not involved after playing in Cork’s opening two Munster U20HC games on the last two Wednesdays while Dáire O’Leary also misses out due to hamstring injury.

Of the Cork team that beat Tipperary in last year’s league final, 11 starters remain – the additions are Mullins, Tommy O’Connell, Harnedy and Buckley with Cormac O'Brien, Ethan Twomey, the injured Diarmuid Healy and Declan Dalton the absentees.

Cork (HL final v Limerick): Patrick Collins (Ballinhassig); Niall O’Leary (Castlelyons), Ciarán Joyce (Castlemartyr), Seán O’Donoghue (Inniscarra); Eoin Downey (Glen Rovers), Robert Downey (Glen Rovers), Micheál Mullins (Glen Rovers); Tim O’Mahony (Newtownshandrum), Tommy O’Connell (Midleton); Séamus Harnedy (St Ita’s), Shane Barrett (Blarney), Darragh Fitzgibbon (Charleville, captain); William Buckley (St Finbarr’s), Alan Connolly (Blackrock), Brian Hayes (St Finbarr’s).

Subs: Paudie O’Sullivan (Fr O’Neill’s), Ger Millerick (Fr O’Neill’s), Damien Cahalane (St Finbarr’s), Mark Coleman (Blarney), Ethan Twomey (St Finbarr’s), Brian Keating (Ballincollig), Hugh O’Connor (Newmarket), Robbie O’Flynn (Erin’s Own), Pádraig Power (Blarney), Declan Dalton (Fr O’Neill’s), Alan Walsh (Kanturk).