The Cork team for Sunday\u2019s Allianz HL Division 1A clash with Kilkenny shows nine changes from the win over Tipperary three weeks ago.<\/p>\n
After two weekends without matches, Ben O\u2019Connor\u2019s side return to league activity still top of the table but in the interim there have been injuries to Robert Downey, Mark Coleman, Declan Dalton, Diarmuid Healy and S\u00e9amus Harnedy while Shane Barrett is suspended.<\/p>\n
Two of the new additions to the team \u2013 goalkeeper Paudie O\u2019Sullivan of Fr O\u2019Neill\u2019s and Killeagh\u2019s Barry Walsh \u2013 are making their league debuts while wing-forward Hugh O\u2019Connor makes his first start.<\/p>\n
Also coming into the side are Niall O\u2019Leary, Ciar\u00e1n Joyce \u2013 making his first appearance under Ben O\u2019Connor \u2013 Cormac O\u2019Brien, Tim O\u2019Mahony, Tommy O\u2019Connell and Brian Hayes.<\/p>\n
P\u00e1draig Power, who sustained a cruciate ligament injury in the second round of last year\u2019s league, is back in the matchday squad for the first time since then.<\/p>\n
\n CORK (HL v Kilkenny): Paudie O\u2019Sullivan (Fr O\u2019Neill\u2019s); Niall O\u2019Leary (Castlelyons), D\u00e1ire O\u2019Leary (Watergrasshill), Se\u00e1n O\u2019Donoghue (Inniscarra); Eoin Downey (Glen Rovers), Ciar\u00e1n Joyce (Castlemartyr), Cormac O\u2019Brien (Newtownshandrum); Tim O\u2019Mahony (Newtownshandrum), Tommy O\u2019Connell (Midleton); Darragh Fitzgibbon (Charleville, captain), William Buckley (St Finbarr\u2019s), Hugh O\u2019Connor (Newmarket); Barry Walsh (Killeagh), Brian Hayes (St Finbarr\u2019s), Alan Connolly (Blackrock).<\/p>\n
\n Subs: Brion Saunderson (Midleton), Eoin Roche (Bride Rovers), Damien Cahalane (St Finbarr\u2019s), Ger Millerick (Fr O\u2019Neill\u2019s), Miche\u00e1l Mullins (Glen Rovers), Ethan Twomey (St Finbarr\u2019s), Shane Kingston (Douglas), Ben Cunningham (St Finbarr\u2019s), Robbie O\u2019Flynn (Erin\u2019s Own), Alan Walsh (Kanturk), P\u00e1draig Power (Blarney).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Cork team for Sunday\u2019s Allianz HL Division 1A clash with Kilkenny shows nine changes from the win…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":320794,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[1964,61,60,112],"class_list":["post-320793","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-cork-gaa","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/320793","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=320793"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/320793\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/320794"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=320793"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=320793"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=320793"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}