Laois will start three debutants in Sunday's opening National Football League encounter with Limerick. Niall Donoher, Colm Begley and Pádraig McMahon will all be starting their first match in the competition, as manager Mick O'Dwyer is forced to improvise around a number of injuries to high-profile players and the club commitments of the Portlaoise players.
Back into the side after last month's O'Byrne Cup win come goalkeeper Fergal Byron and Padraig Clancy who were with the All Stars in Hong Kong.
Kieran Kelly at wing back hasn't played in the league for three years but is back after a solid campaign in the O'Byrne Cup. Mark Dunne, who impressed at centrefield in the final, gets his chance at corner forward.
Tyrone's first team of what may be the post-Peter Canavan era contains only one newcomer at this level.
Eoin Bradley, who emerged on TG4's Underdogs team that defeated Kerry before Christmas, makes his debut at corner back.
Chris Lawn, the panel's longest serving player following the withdrawal of Peter Canavan, is named at full back where he played in the 1995 All-Ireland final against Dublin while Brian Robinson, out of favour for a year, returns at half back.
Canavan had been expected to take over the centre forward position from Brian McGuigan, currently in Australia, but the number 11 shirt now passes to Stephen O'Neill, who has been showing exceptional form in the Dr McKenna Cup.
Ryan Mellon, who missed almost two seasons including the All-Ireland triumph, through illness, is back at corner forward.
Harte has named a 30-man panel for the league campaign despite a GAA directive cutting intercounty squads back to 24.
Leinster champions Westmeath welcome back their All Star pairing of Des Dolan and John Keane for the trip to Tullamore to face Offaly on Sunday. The two were missing when Páidí Ó Sé's team lost the recent O'Byrne Cup final to Laois and are among four changes from that side.
Out go Daniel McDermott, Alan Lambden, James McAteer and Patrick Mulvihill who is suspended. Joining Dolan and Keane in the side are Joe Fallon and James Davitt.
Limerick will be missing over half their championship team for the match against Laois. Stephen Lucey, John Galvin, Jason Stokes, Seamus O'Donnell and captain Muiris Gavin are all among those absent and not expected back for a couple of weeks.
Meanwhile, the GAA have confirmed that there will be no increase in ticket prices this year, as decided by last weekend's Central Council meeting.
The association expects to spend in the region of €7.5 million on games development projects in the next 12 months, bringing the total for the past four years of central grants to €20 million.
Last year's introduction of compulsory helmets for all under-18 players means a doubling in the helmet subsidy to €600,000 for this year.
One million has been set aside to assist in the floodlighting of one major ground in each of the provinces. In addition it is expected that the GAA will allocate grant funding in the region of €3.5 million towards ground redevelopment.
Among the county grounds to benefit from Central Council grants announced last week were: Markievicz Park, Sligo (€70,000), Nowlan Park, Kilkenny (€100,000), O'Connor Park in Tullamore (€100,000), Pearse Park in Longford (€70,000), Dr Cullen Park, Carlow (€20,000), Limerick's Gaelic Grounds (€100,000), Thurles (€100,000), the Athletic Grounds in Armagh (€70,000), Kingspan Breffni Park, Cavan (€100,000), Newry (€30,000) and Healy Park in Omagh (€100,000).
Provision has also been made to allow for an increase in team expenses grants (paid annually to counties to help defray the costs incurred in the preparation of teams) and it is expected that Central Council will pay in excess of €2.6 million to counties to assist in this context.
