Team news: Walsh gets first championship start for Cork hurlers since 2015

May 18, 2019

Cork's Aidan Walsh. ©INPHO/Morgan Treacy.

Aidan Walsh has been named in the Cork team to face Limerick in round 2 of the Munster SHC at the LIT Gaelic Grounds tomorrow (throw-in 4pm).

It will mark his first championship start for the Rebel hurlers since 2015 as manager John Meyler makes four changes in total from the seven-point defeat to Tipperary last weekend.

Debutant Robert Downey, centre-back Mark Ellis and midfielder Bill Cooper, who returns from injury, also win call ups to the starting 15.

Cork (Munster SHC v Limerick): Anthony Nash; Sean O'Donoghue, Eoin Cadogan, Niall O'Leary; Robert Downey, Mark Elllis, Mark Coleman; Bill Cooper, Darragh Fitzgibbon; Daniel Kearney, Seamus Harnedy, Luke Meade; Conor Lehane, Patrick Horgan, Aidan Walsh.

Subs: Patrick Collins, Stephen McDonnell, Damien Cahalane, Tim O' Mahony, Christopher Joyce, Ger Millerick, Robbie O'Flynn, Shane Kingston, Alan Cadogan, Declan Dalton, Jack O'Connor.


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