{"id":272504,"date":"2026-01-07T16:46:07","date_gmt":"2026-01-07T16:46:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/272504\/"},"modified":"2026-01-07T16:46:07","modified_gmt":"2026-01-07T16:46:07","slug":"cork-make-five-changes-limerick-name-strong-team-for-munster-shl-clash","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/272504\/","title":{"rendered":"Cork make five changes, Limerick name strong team for Munster SHL clash\u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Cork team named to face Limerick in Wednesday evening\u2019s Co-Op Munster Senior Hurling League clash shows five changes from the side that began the Canon O\u2019Brien Cup defeat to UCC.<\/p>\n<p>Ger Millerick, Tom Hanley, Jack Kearney, Colin O\u2019Brien and Robbie O\u2019Flynn come in for Daire O\u2019Leary, Miche\u00e1l Mullins, Brian O\u2019Sullivan, Alan Walsh and Se\u00e1n Desmond.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">O\u2019Sullivan is named among the six substitute for the trip to TUS Gaelic Grounds. Unlike the UCC game when Se\u00e1n O\u2019Donoghue, Declan Dalton and Shane Kingston came off the bench, the announced squad does not feature any players who featured in last year\u2019s All-Ireland final.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">On Wednesday morning, Limerick named a strong match day panel for the game. It features nine players &#8211; Barry Murphy, Se\u00e1n Finn, William O&#8217;Donoghue, Cian Lynch, Peter Casey, Tom Morrissey, Gear\u00f3id Hegarty, Nickie Quaid, and Mike Casey &#8211; who lined out for Limerick in the All-Ireland SHC quarter-final defeat to Dublin last June.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">The game throws in at 7:35pm and it will be broadcast live on TG4.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">\n            CORK (MHL v Limerick): B. Saunderson (Midleton); C. Doolan (St Finbarrs), E. Roche (Bride Rovers), G. Millerick (Fr O\u2019Neill\u2019s); T. Hanley (Ballyhea), E. Twomey (St Finbarr\u2019s), C. Tobin (Bride Rovers); C. Darcy (Sarsfields), J. Kearney (Castlelyons); Colin O\u2019Brien (Liscarroll\/Churchtown Gaels), C. McCarthy (Sarsfields), J. O\u2019Connor (Sarsfields); J. Cahalane (St Finbarr\u2019s), S. Desmond (Watergrasshill), R. O\u2019Flynn (Erin\u2019s Own).\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">\n            Subs: D. O\u2019Connell (Dromina), Cormac O\u2019Brien (Newtownshandrum), B. O\u2019Sullivan (Kanturk), M. Barrett (Carrigtwohill), J. Casey (Youghal), R. Dooley (Douglas).<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">\n            LIMERICK: C Ryan (Pallasgreen); B Murphy (Doon), S Finn (Bruff), E Stokes (Doon); C Thomas (Doon), W O\u2019Donoghue (Na Piarsaigh), M Fitzgerald (Monaleen); C Lynch (Patrickswell), D O\u2019Donovan (Doon); J English (Garryspillane), P Casey (Na Piarsaigh), T Morrissey (Ahane); D \u00d3 Dalaigh (Monaleen), G Hegarty (St Patrick\u2019s), P O\u2019Donovan (Effin)\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">\n            Subs: N Quaid (Effin), M Casey (Na Piarsaigh), H Flanagan (Garryspillane), D O\u2019Shea (Garryspillane), E Hurley (Newcastle West), J Finn (Na Piarsaigh), J Cosgrove (Ahane), J O\u2019Connor (Ahane)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Cork team named to face Limerick in Wednesday evening\u2019s Co-Op Munster Senior Hurling League clash shows five&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":272505,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[76],"tags":[94059,24,18,129,19,17,132],"class_list":{"0":"post-272504","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-sports","8":"tag-munster-gaa","9":"tag-cork-gaa","10":"tag-eire","11":"tag-hurling","12":"tag-ie","13":"tag-ireland","14":"tag-sports"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/272504","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=272504"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/272504\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/272505"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=272504"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=272504"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=272504"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}