*Michael Collins. Photograph: Gerard O’Neill.
CLARE’s U20 team to take on Waterford in the first round of the Munster championship has been named.
Terence Fahy and his management side have picked their fifteen for the county’s first hurling championship outing of the year which takes place in O’Garney Park, Sixmilebridge on Wednesday evening.
Seven members of the starting team from the 2023 All-Ireland minor final are included in the side, Mark Sheedy between the posts, captain Eoghan Gunning at corner back, wing backs Jamie Moylan and Matthew O’Halloran, Ronan Kilroy at wing forward, centre forward Michael Collins and full forward Seán Arthur.
Similarly, there are seven survivors from the U20 side which lost last year’s Munster final to Tipperary. They are Sheedy, Gunning, Moylan, Kilroy, Collins, Fred Hegarty and Daniel Costelloe.
Fahy’s fifteen includes three county senior panellists, Sheedy, Moylan and Kilroy with the Banner clubman back at his more accustomed wing forward berth.
Injury rules out James Hegarty with the Inagh/Kilnamona clubman missing out with a hamstring problem.
Graham Ball and Paul Rodgers from last year’s minor side are included among the substitutes.
Clare:
1: Mark Sheedy (Sixmilebridge)
2: Eoghan Gunning (Broadford)
3: Robert Loftus (Éire Óg)
4: Joe Casey (Kilmaley)
5: Jamie Moylan (Cratloe)
6: James Cullinan (Ruan)
7: Matthew O’Halloran (Sixmilebridge)
8: Daniel Costelloe (Ballyea)
9: Darren Moroney (Éire Óg)
10: Ronan Kilroy (Banner)
11: Michael Collins (Clonlara)
12: Harry Doherty (Clarecastle)
13: Marco Cleary (Éire Óg)
14: Seán Arthur (Newmarket-on-Fergus)
15: Fred Hegarty (Inagh/Kilnamona)
Subs:
16: Cormac Doyle (Bodyke)
17: Conor Daly (St Joseph’s Doora/Barefield)
18: Ryan Hayes (Tulla)
19: Michael Power (Newmarket-on-Fergus)
20: Jack Mescall (Inagh/Kilnamona)
21: Ronan Keane (Killanena)
22: Paul Rodgers (Scariff)
23: Marc O’Brien (Cratloe)
24: Graham Ball (St Joseph’s Doora/Barefield)
