{"id":460809,"date":"2026-05-21T23:05:11","date_gmt":"2026-05-21T23:05:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/460809\/"},"modified":"2026-05-21T23:05:11","modified_gmt":"2026-05-21T23:05:11","slug":"gaa-team-news-kerry-and-galway-footballers-make-four-changes-each-while-eoghan-odonnell-returns-for-dublin-hurlers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/460809\/","title":{"rendered":"GAA team news: Kerry and Galway footballers make four changes each while Eoghan O’Donnell returns for Dublin hurlers"},"content":{"rendered":"

Graham O\u2019Sullivan, Cillian Trant, Tony Brosnan and Dylan Geaney are included while Paudie Clifford, Se\u00e1n O\u2019Brien and Tom\u00e1s Kennedy are among the substitutes and Armin Heinrich misses out on the matchday panel.<\/p>\n

While Brian \u00d3 Beaglaoich and Joe O\u2019Connor are on the bench, Gavin White is also absent from the Kerry<\/a> squad having come on against Cork<\/a>. Shane Ryan, Paul Murphy, Tom O\u2019Sullivan, Se\u00e1n O\u2019Shea and Paul Geaney are also not available.<\/p>\n

\"Kerry\u2019sKerry\u2019s Paudie Clifford and Maurice Shanley of Cork. Picture: INPHO\/Ryan Byrne<\/p>\n

Brosnan starts having impressed in the second half in the win over Cork. He replaced Paudie Clifford at half-time, while O\u2019Brien and Kennedy picked up slight knocks last Sunday week. Heinrich was also substituted at the break.<\/p>\n

From last year\u2019s All-Ireland final winning team, there are just seven survivors due to start again against Donegal. Ten remain from the team that began March\u2019s Division 1 final loss to Jim McGuinness\u2019 side.<\/p>\n

\n KERRY (SFC v Donegal
\n ): S. Murphy; E. Looney, J. Foley, D. Casey; T. Morley, M. Breen, G. O\u2019Sullivan; M. O\u2019Shea, D. O\u2019Connor; M. Burns, K. Evans, C. Trant; T. Brosnan, D. Clifford (c), D. Geaney.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Subs: S. Broderick, E. Healy, T. Kennedy, K. Spillane, D. O\u2019Sullivan, P. Clifford, J. O\u2019Connor, B. \u00d3 Beaglaoich, S. O\u2019Brien, J. Nagle, B.D. O\u2019Sullivan.<\/p>\n

\"GalwayGalway veteran Matthew Tierney. Picture: INPHO\/Emily Harney<\/p>\n

Meanwhile, P\u00e1draic Joyce has announced four personnel changes from the side that lost the Connacht final to Roscommon for the visit of Kildare to Salthill on Saturday.<\/p>\n

Liam \u00d3 Conghaile and Ryan Roche are out entirely while Kieran Molloy and Daniel O\u2019Flaherty drop to the bench. Coming into the team for the evening game are Cian Hernon, John Daly, Ciar\u00e1n Mulhern and Matthew Tierney.<\/p>\n

\n GALWAY (SFC v Kildare): C. Flaherty; J. Glynn, C. Hernon, L. Silke; D. McHugh, J. Daly, S. Kelly; P. Conroy, J. Maher (c); C. Darcy, C. Mulhern, C. McDaid; R. Finnerty, M. Tierney, S. Walsh.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\n Subs: C. Gleeson, B. Cogger, S. \u00d3 Maoilchiar\u00e1in, J. McGrath, K. Molloy, R. Roche, S. McGlinchey, S. McGrath, D. O\u2019Flaherty, O. Mac Donnacha, D. Comer.<\/p>\n

\"EoghanEoghan O’Donnell of Dublin in action. Picture: INPHO\/James Lawlor<\/p>\n

On the hurling front, Dublin have made one change to the team that commenced last Saturday\u2019s Leinster SHC, Round 4 win over Galway for the final round clash with Kilkenny in Parnell Park.<\/p>\n

Eoghan O\u2019Donnell, who was named to start that game but was replaced later, is in for Conor McHugh. Ronan Hayes and John Hetherton, who were instrumental in the victory in Salthill, are at least listed among the substitutes.<\/p>\n

\n DUBLIN (SHC v Kilkenny): E. Gibbons; P. Doyle, P. Smyth, E. O\u2019Donnell; C. Crummey (c), L. Rushe, C. Burke; B. Hayes, C. Groarke; F. Whitely, D. Burke, C. Donohoe; D. Purcell, C. O\u2019Sullivan, C. \u00d3 Riain.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\n Subs: S. Brennan, D. Lucey, R. Hayes, O. Gaffney, C. McHugh, J. Bellew, D. \u00d3 D\u00falaing, P. Dunleavy, D. Purcell, D. Power, J. Hetherton.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Graham O\u2019Sullivan, Cillian Trant, Tony Brosnan and Dylan Geaney are included while Paudie Clifford, Se\u00e1n O\u2019Brien and Tom\u00e1s…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":460810,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[177329,4365,6937,42,43,40,38,41,39],"class_list":["post-460809","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-championship-2026","tag-gaelic-football","tag-kerry-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\/460809","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=460809"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/460809\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/460810"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=460809"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=460809"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=460809"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}