Jackies make three changes for duel with Déise

Fri, 12th July 2019

Dublin manager Mick Bohan has made three changes in personnel for Saturday's TG4 All-Ireland SFC Group 2 Round 1 clash against Waterford.

Bohan has named Éabha Rutledge (pictured), Jennifer Dunne and Lyndsey Davey in his starting line-up for the clash in O’Moore Park, Portlaoise (3.30, Live on TG4), as the All-Ireland champions aim to get off to a winning start in the round-robin phase.

Rutledge replaces Martha Byrne at corner-back, while Dunne and Davey are listed to start in attack ahead of Oonagh Whyte and captain Sinead Aherne, who damaged her shoulder in the Leinster SFC final victory over Westmeath.

Whyte scored two goals in the Leinster decider victory over Westmeath and while she started the game, the Clann Mhuire player wasn’t named in the starting team.

Dublin are in a three-team group alongside the Déise and Monaghan, who Dublin will face in Round 3 of the round-robin series.

Waterford have also made three changes from the team that lost out to Cork in the Munster Final.

Cora Murray comes in for Caoimhe McGrath, who’s on camogie duty, Aisling Mullaney replaces Shauna Dunphy, and Brigita Valuntaite, who replaced Mairead Wall during the provincial decider, holds onto her place.

Cora Murray’s inclusion in defence sees three sisters from Comeragh Rangers named on the Waterford team, with Emma and Katie also listed in Ciaran Curran’s starting 15.

The first game on the live TV double-bill at O’Moore Park sees Galway, the Connacht champions, up against Kerry at 1.45pm in a Group 3 opener.

DUBLIN (LADIES SFC v Waterford)

1 Ciara Trant (St Brigid's)

2 Éabha Rutledge (Kilmacud Crokes)

3 Niamh Collins (Foxrock Cabinteely)

4 Rachel Ruddy (Ballyboden St Enda's)

5 Aoife Kane (Kilmacud Crokes)

6 Sinéad Goldrick (Foxrock Cabinteely)

7 Lauren Magee (Kilmacud Crokes)

8 Olwen Carey (Thomas Davis)

9 Siobhan McGrath (Thomas Davis)

10 Nicole Owens (St Sylvester’s)

11 Niamh McEvoy (St Sylvester’s)

12 Jennifer Dunne (Cuala)

13 Noelle Healy (Mourneabbey, Cork)

14 Niamh Hetherton (Clontarf)

15 Lyndsey Davey (Skerries Harps)

Subs: Rachel Fleming (Kilmacud Crokes), Martha Byrne (Cuala), Sarah Fagan (Clontarf), Kate Fitzgibbon (Clontarf), Emma McDonagh (Foxrock Cabinteely), Muireann Ní Scanaill (Fingallians), Lucy Collins (Na Fianna), Oonagh Whyte (Clann Mhuire), Caoimhe O’Connor (Clontarf), Siobhan Woods (Raheny), Carla Rowe (Clann Mhuire), Sinéad Aherne (St Sylvester’s), Hannah O’Neill (Foxrock Cabinteely), Ciara McGuigan (Thomas Davis), Orlagh Nolan (Ballinteer St John's).

WATERFORD (v Dublin): R Landers; C Murray, E Murray, Kate McGrath; R Tobin, Karen McGrath, A Mullaney; K Murray, C Fennell; A Wall, K Hogan, B Valuntaite; E Fennell, M Ryan, M Delahunty.