Harry Murphy says there's no comparison between Brian Coen's transfer and Seanie Johnston's.

Comparisons have been made between the two intercounty switches as both men made themselves eligible for intercounty football championship fare by first lining out in a club hurling championship match - but Garden County boss Murphy is adamant that any similarities between the two cases end there:

"This is a completely different situation," Murphy says in The Irish Independent. "Brian has been living in Wicklow for a few years, he is getting married here and building a house here at the moment.

"He was finding it difficult going up and down to Tipp so eventually transferred clubs and that is how he has become eligible for us.

"Brian has always played hurling and football. It has just happened that he has lined out for St Patrick's hurlers first in the club championship."

Coen is in line to make his Wicklow debut against Longford at Aughrim in the Leinster SFC on Sunday. His former Premier County team-mates travel to Killarney to face Kerry on the same afternoon. Tweet

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