MUNSTER UNDER-21 HURLING SEMI-FINAL: Cork v TipperaryTonight, throw-in – 7.30pm, Pairc Uí Chaoimh
WITH A team boasting seven senior panellists, Tipperary travel to Páirc Uí Chaoimh with a wealth of experience as both teams look to progress to the provincial final.
Pádraic Maher and Noel McGrath are Tipperary’s two form players while Brian O’Meara and John O’Neill have both been ruled out with knee injuries.
Cork looked impressive when they defeated Waterford 1-16 to 1-3 in the quarter-final. They will once again be without the services of dual star Aidan Walsh. Full forward Cian McCarthy is suspended having received a red card in the quarter-final win over Waterford. Daniel Roche takes his place and Robert White also comes into the forward line in the only changes to the team since the semi-final win.
CORK: D McCarthy, S McDonnell, E Keane, C O'Sullivan, J Nagle, W Egan, L McLaughlin, D Kearney, S O'Farrell, M Collins, D Roche, M Bowles, R White, L O'Farrell, R Clifford.
TIPPERARY: J Logue, K O'Gorman, J Coghlan, M Cahill, J Barry, P Maher, B Maher, S Hennessy, N McGrath, D Maher, P Maher, P Murphy, A Ryan, J O'Dwyer, M Heffernan.