Paddy Gribben will return to representative duty on Sunday, a month after his international debut in the men's amateur Home International championships at Burnham & Berrow was marred by injury. The Warrenpoint clubman - who sustained a serious foot infection at the Home Internationals - was ordered by medical personnel not to play for four weeks. But the former professional, who was reinstated as an amateur at the start of the season, will be one of the mainstays in Down's bid to retain the Ulster intercounty championship when the finals take place at Castlerock. Also in the team are another Irish international Andrew McCormick and Philip Purdy.

Sunday's semi-finals will see Down (3-2 winners over Tyrone in the quarter-finals when Gribben was unavailable) take on Derry, while the other semi-final brings together Antrim and Donegal.