{"id":437845,"date":"2026-05-08T00:29:11","date_gmt":"2026-05-08T00:29:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/437845\/"},"modified":"2026-05-08T00:29:11","modified_gmt":"2026-05-08T00:29:11","slug":"jack-oconnor-makes-two-changes-to-kerry-team-to-face-cork-in-munster-final","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/437845\/","title":{"rendered":"Jack O&#8217;Connor makes two changes to Kerry team to face Cork in Munster final"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Two of them \u2013 Gavin White and Dylan Geaney \u2013 are named on the bench but missing from the squad are Shane Ryan, Paul Murphy, Brian \u00d3 Beaglaoich, Joe O\u2019Connor, Se\u00e1n O\u2019Shea and Graham O\u2019Sullivan. Also out with a groin strain is Tom O\u2019Sullivan.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">Killian Spillane, Tadhg Morley, Miche\u00e1l Burns and Diarmuid O\u2019Connor, who came off the bench against Donegal last July, are named to start in Fitzgerald Stadium.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">Paul Geaney, an unused substitute 10 months ago, captains the team as Jack O\u2019Connor starts with 13 of the side that began the semi-final win over Clare in Ennis two weeks ago. Injured Tom O\u2019Sullivan and Cillian Trant, who is among the substitutes, are replaced by Evan Looney and Se\u00e1n O\u2019Brien with Diarmuid O\u2019Connor moving to wing-forward.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">From last year\u2019s side that were in from the outset against Cork in their group win in SuperValu P\u00e1irc U\u00ed Chaoimh, Kerry have eight survivors \u2013 Casey, Jason Foley, White, Breen, the Clifford brothers, Paul Geaney and Burns.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">\n            KERRY (SFC v Cork): S. Murphy; E. Looney, J. Foley, D. Casey; T. Morley, M. Breen, A. Heinrich; M. O\u2019Shea, S. O\u2019Brien; M. Burns, P. Clifford, D. O\u2019Connor; D. Clifford, P. Geaney (c), K. Evans. Subs: S. Broderick, T. Brosnan, C. Trant, K. Spillane, E. Healy, G. White, D. Geaney, T. Kennedy, D. O\u2019Sullivan, J. Nagle, C. Collins.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Two of them \u2013 Gavin White and Dylan Geaney \u2013 are named on the bench but missing from&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":437846,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[6937,1964,42,43,40,38,41,39],"class_list":["post-437845","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-kerry-gaa","tag-cork-gaa","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/437845","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=437845"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/437845\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/437846"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=437845"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=437845"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=437845"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}