There are two changes to the Cork U20 football team for Thursday’s Munster Phase 2, Round 2 game at home to Kerry (P\u00e1irc U\u00ed Chaoimh, 7pm).<\/p>\n
From the side that drew with Clare last week, Harry Wixted comes in at corner-back for Matthew Ahern. At midfield, Trevor Kiely replaces Se\u00e1n Connolly. Kiely, who came off the bench in Quilty, was part of last year’s U20 team.<\/p>\n
The draw against Clare means that if Cork do not succeed in ending the county’s six-game losing streak against the Kingdom at U20 level, then they will need to overcome Waterford and rely on a favour elsewhere in the Clare-Kerry fixture to reach the Munster final.<\/p>\n
The other game in the group which sees Clare host Waterford has been moved from Quilty to Kilmihill, 7pm.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Waterford were blitzed by Kerry 2-27 to 0-10 in their opener. The Banner will be eager to make home advantage count on Thursday night, considering scoring difference could yet be a factor on who makes the provincial decider.<\/p>\n
Meanwhile, Kerry senior panelist Tom\u00e1s Kennedy has been named in the Kerry U20 team, what will be his first start at this age-grade in 2026.<\/p>\n
Kennedy, who made his senior championship debut last summer, started two of Kerry’s round-robin games in Division 1 of this year\u2019s league, coming off the bench in another three, including the final defeat to Donegal.<\/p>\n
The Kerins O\u2019Rahillys talent missed Kerry\u2019s opening round U20 win over Waterford as he was part of the senior side\u2019s pre-championship training camp in Portugal. He has been selected at full-forward for the trip to P\u00e1irc U\u00ed Chaoimh.<\/p>\n
Killian Dennehy, who was absent at Lemybrien last week because of an illness, having initially been picked at midfield, is again named to start, this time in the half-forward line.<\/p>\n
The incoming pair replace Mark O’Carroll and M\u00e1irt\u00edn McKivergan.<\/p>\n
\n CORK (Munster U20 v Kerry): B Curtin (Valley Rovers); F Hurley (O\u2019Donovan Rossa), P Rose (Ballincollig), H Wixted (Bishopstown); S O\u2019Leary (Kilmurry), C McCarthy (St Colum\u2019s), O Foley (Bishopstown); D Clifford (\u00c9ire \u00d3g), T Kiely (Mallow); M O\u2019Brien (Ballinora), D Sheedy (Bantry Blues), G Holland (Bishopstown); S Coakley (Douglas), R Barrett (St Finbarr\u2019s), D Miskella (Ballincollig).<\/p>\n
\n Subs: J O\u2019Flaherty (Douglas), M Ahern (St Finbarr’s), D O’Neill (Carbery Rangers), D O’Mullane (Kilmurry), A Keane (Kinsale), L Shorten (Tadhg MacCartaigh), L Murphy (Barryroe), B Corkery Delaney (Carrigaline), S Connolly (Ilen Rovers).<\/p>\n
\n Kerry (Munster U20 v Cork): K Robak (Dr Crokes); M Lynch (Milltown\/Castlemaine), G Evans (Keel), D Mulvihill (Tarbert); S \u00d3 C\u00fainn (An Ghaeltacht), A \u00d3 Beaglaoich (An Ghaeltacht), P Walsh (Listowel Emmets); D Kirby (Austin Stacks), E Boyle (Ballyduff); J O\u2019Sullivan (Kenmare Shamrocks), R Carroll (Austin Stacks), K Dennehy (Cordal); G White (John Mitchels), T Kennedy (Kerins O\u2019Rahilly\u2019s), P Lane (Austin Stacks).<\/p>\n
\n Subs: B Fitzsimons (Kenmare Shamrocks), D Stack (Kilcummin), M O\u2019Carroll (Dr Crokes), M McKivergan (Ballymacelligott), R Sheridan (Duagh), B Kelliher (Dr Crokes), E O\u2019Flaherty (Ardfert), J Joy (Ballymacelligott), A Byrne (Dr Crokes), I Brosnan (Castleisland Desmonds).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"There are two changes to the Cork U20 football team for Thursday’s Munster Phase 2, Round 2 game…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":401391,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[2110,6937,1964,61,60,112],"class_list":{"0":"post-401390","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-sports","8":"tag-cork-sport","9":"tag-kerry-gaa","10":"tag-cork-gaa","11":"tag-ie","12":"tag-ireland","13":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/401390","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=401390"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/401390\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/401391"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=401390"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=401390"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=401390"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}