victory over Offaly<\/a> last Sunday week, O\u2019Connell having sustained a broken thumb in the Munster final loss to Limerick while O\u2019Mahony was ruled out with a dead leg.<\/p>\nHowever, both recoveries have gone well enough to give them a chance of making the Croke Park fixture, which has a 3.30pm throw-in, while Mark Coleman and Robert Downey, who had minor groin and ankle issues in the wake of the Offaly match, are fit and available too.<\/p>\n
\u201cTim and Tommy both did a bit at the weekend,\u201d O\u2019Connor said.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe have a game at training tonight [Monday] and if the two of them can play in that, they\u2019re in contention for the weekend.<\/p>\n
\u201cThey were involved in non-contact work on Friday, they did a bit of hurling, so it\u2019s about seeing how they come through the training game.<\/p>\n
\u201cTommy hasn\u2019t played since the Munster final, he came off late on in that, so that\u2019s the only issue with him if he gets over tonight. Tim was able to do a bit of running and a bit of pucking last week, he hasn\u2019t been out as long.<\/p>\n
\u201cOther than that \u2013 touch wood \u2013 we\u2019ve everybody bar Joycey. We seem to be getting on top of the injuries and everybody has been working hard, so hopefully we\u2019ll have close to a full squad.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n
The game will be preceded by the Glen Dimplex All-Ireland Senior Camogie Championship quarter-final between Kilkenny and Waterford while Sunday\u2019s Clare-Limerick semi-final will have the camogie game between Clare and Tipperary as its curtain-raiser.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Cork hurling manager Ben O\u2019Connor is optimistic that midfielders Tommy O\u2019Connell and Tim O\u2019Mahony will be fit enough…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":524820,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[177329,1965,1964,61,60,112],"class_list":["post-524819","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-championship-2026","tag-hurling","tag-cork-gaa","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/524819","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=524819"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/524819\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/524820"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=524819"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=524819"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=524819"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}