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Cork captain Eoin Considine contests aerial possession with Limerick’s Diarmuid Crowe during the Electric Ireland MHC game at P\u00e1irc U\u00ed Rinn.\u00a0<\/p>\nThe Cork minor hurling management have kept faith with the same starting 15 for Saturday\u2019s Electric Ireland All-Ireland MHC quarter-final against Tipperary at TUS Gaelic Grounds (2pm).<\/p>\n
Having impressed in a 12-point quarter-final win over Kilkenny at FBD Semple Stadium a fortnight ago, Donal Mulcahy and his selectors have gone with the same team, though there are two changes to the substitutes as Midleton\u2019s John O\u2019Sullivan and Inniscarra\u2019s James O\u2019Sullivan are included.<\/p>\n
Back in April, Cork competed well against Tipperary in the sides\u2019 Munster MHC round-robin game in Thurles before the home side scored the game\u2019s last five points to win by seven. Indicative of the dynamic nature of the U17 grade is the fact that the starting side that night shows six changes compared with Saturday\u2019s side, while goalkeeper Marley Walsh and corner-backs Jack Batterberry and Nathan Coffey are the only players selected in the same position as on that evening.<\/p>\n
The game will be Cork\u2019s seventh in total, with three All-Ireland knockout ties having followed the four as they finished third in the Munster league table.<\/p>\n
For Mulcahy, the benefits in terms of the players\u2019 development have been huge.<\/p>\n
\u201cAbsolutely, that’s one of the most pleasing aspects of our group is that, look, they’ve continued to learn and improve,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n
\u201cTo me, that’s what the minor grade is about \u2013 players make mistakes, they learn from them, they get better.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe’ve seen that progression through the season and the experience gained from seven championship matches has been invaluable.<\/p>\n
\u201cSo, that’s kind of where we are at the moment. We have some injury challenges \u2013 ufortunately, CJ Barrett remains unavailable due to a long-term injury and this game is coming a little too soon for Howard O’Donovan and Sam Ring, but other than that, we have a clean bill of health and the rest of the squad is available for selection.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n
Cork captain Eoin Considine contests aerial possession with Limerick’s Diarmuid Crowe during the Electric Ireland MHC game at P\u00e1irc U\u00ed Rinn.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Having had to dig deep to conjure a late comeback to overcome Wexford in the All-Ireland preliminary quarter-final, Cork led throughout against Kilkenny, with goals from Se\u00e1n Riordan and Callum Coffey in a 2-25 to 1-16 triumph.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe kind of got ahead and we stayed ahead,\u201d Mulcahy said.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe had a little bit of a wobble maybe before half-time, but the lads regrouped and kicked on in the second half.<\/p>\n
\u201cThat has certainly given confidence to the squad and they shown great character, resilience and composure in both the games as well.\u201d Cork are aiming to reach the All-Ireland final for the first time since 2021, when Noel Furlong\u2019s team featuring current seniors William Buckley, Diarmuid Healy, Paudie O\u2019Sullivan and Darragh O\u2019Sullivan as well as Munster rugby player Ben O\u2019Connor won all five games by double digits.<\/p>\n
A year ago, Cork won Munster but lost to Clare in the All-Ireland semi-final; this time, they will hope that the back-door run can give them momentum against a Tipp side that looked strong as they claimed provincial glory, beating Limerick by eight points on May 15.<\/p>\n
Mulcahy feels there are lessons to take from the earlier game against Tipp but, equally, Cork have developed since then.<\/p>\n
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Cork goalkeeper Marley Walsh gets away from Wexford’s Joey Tobin during the All-Ireland preliminary quarter-final at FBD Semple Stadium. Picture: Eddie O’Hare<\/p>\n
\u201cWe’ve evolved over the last couple of months, because games give you that,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n
\u201cTipp have had five games and if you look at their team, there’s some fantastic players throughout.<\/p>\n
\u201cThey’ve got Conor Collins, the captain, at corner-back, and centre-back James Finn is extremely strong.<\/p>\n
\u201cYou’ve got the two Dunnes, Chris and CJ, and probably the outstanding player of the championship so far is Conor Morrison.<\/p>\n
\u201cTipp have been very, very consistent and they’re deservedly regarded as favourites, but there’s been a great buzz the last two weeks and lads have been bouncing into training. If we give a good account of ourselves and put in a good performance, we’ll see where that takes us on Saturday.”<\/p>\n
In the other semi-final, Leinster champions Galway face Limerick, who overcame Clare in a quarter-final, at Zimmer Biomet P\u00e1irc Ch\u00edos\u00f3g in Ennis, throw-in 5pm.<\/p>\n
\n CORK (All-Ireland MHC v Tipperary): Marley Walsh (Youghal); Jack Batterberry (Castletownroche), Finn Cahill (Midleton), Nathan Coffey (Na Piarsaigh); Eoin Considine (Sarsfields, captain), Dave Nolan (Erin\u2019s Own), Ger Kingston (Mallow); Alfie Hennessy (Midleton), Stephen McHugh (Newtownshandrum); Cormac Murphy (Ballinora), Se\u00e1n Riordan (Kilworth), Ryan Cagney (Mallow); Callum Coffey (Na Piarsaigh), Bobby Power (Ballincollig), Sam McCarthy (Castlelyons).<\/p>\n
\n Subs: Will Stokes (Midleton), Cathal Barry (Bride Rovers), Liam O\u2019Regan (St Finbarr\u2019s), Tadhg Murphy (Cloughduv), Tadhg McCarthy (Watergrasshill), Tom Huggins (Sarsfields), Conor Ronayne (Dungourney), John O\u2019Sullivan (Midleton), James O\u2019Sullivan (Inniscarra). <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Cork minor hurling management have kept faith with the same starting 15 for Saturday\u2019s Electric Ireland All-Ireland…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":494995,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[1964,61,60,43],"class_list":["post-494994","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ireland","tag-cork-gaa","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/494994","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=494994"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/494994\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/494995"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=494994"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=494994"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=494994"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}