DERRY'S wideranging selection policy this League was again observed with 10 changes in personnel on the team named to face Meath at Celtic Park this Sunday when a place in the quarter finals at stake.
Although Brian Mullins and his selectors have been keen to take a good, look at as many players as possible, a number of the changes from the side that drew with Donegal have been brought about by the return from injury of several players.
Dermot Heaney (full back), Brian McGilligan, Rory Boylan (both midfield), and Fergal McCusker (left wing back) all come back into the side, as do Tony Scullion (left corner back) and Joe Brolly (right corner forward), who started the Donegal match on the bench.
Also named are David O'Neill (right wing back), Gary McGill (left wing forward) and Declan Bateson (left corner forward).
Still on the indisposed list are Enda Gormley, who has a calf injury, and John McGurk, out with a long term shoulder injury. Karl Diamond, named on the substitutes' bench, has flu.
All Ireland goalkeeper Damien McCusker is also on the bench and has indicated that he has ended his recent dalliance with soccer club Ballyclare Comrades to concentrate on football. In the meantime Jonathan Kelly continues in goal.
Tyrone make two changes from the side that defeated Clare for the trip to Portlaoise to take on Laois. Chris Lawn and Ciaran Loughran, of the All Ireland team, return to the team in place of Jody Gormley and Sean McLaughlin. Ronan McGarrity moves from left corner back to centre back with Seamus McCallan going to midfield, his old under 21 position.
Provincial champions Offaly provide six of the Leinster Railway Cup hurling team to play Connacht in Ballinasloe on Sunday.
Kilkenny, surprisingly, have only one representative, D J Carey. Laois and Wexford have three players each with Dublin and Meath completing the line up.
Meath's latest representative on the Leinster hurling team is David Martin who is named at centre forward. Martin won a football All Ireland with the county minors in 1990.
