Jackies make two changes for clash with Kerry

Fri, 2nd August 2019

TG4 SFC All-Ireland quarter-final

Monday August 5 (4.45)

Dublin v Kerry (LIVE TG4)

Bord na Mona O’Connor Park, Tullamore

For a second year in-a-row Dublin and Kerry meet in the All -Ireland quarter final at stake is a semi-final meeting with either Cork or Tyrone on August 25 in Croke Park.

That will be the first time in the history of the LGFA that both senior All-Ireland semi-finals will be staged at GAA headquarters.

When the two sides met last August Dublin chalked up a 3-19 (28) to 1-7 (10) victory over the Kingdom having previously beaten Kerry in 2017 at the semi-final stage by 5-10 (25) to 0-11 (11).

Dublin’s starting 15 for Monday’s clash between these two rivals will see 12 players line out for Dublin that fielded against Kerry last year in Dr Hyde Park.

Missing from the squad are Leah Caffrey and Deirdre Murphy both of whom are currently travelling overseas while the injured Nicole Owens is not listed.

Owens picked up an injury in the pre-match warm up last Saturday in Parnell Park and is ruled out for Monday’s clash in Tullamore.

Mick Bohan and his management team have made two changes to their starting 15 that overcame Monaghan last weekend. Top Dublin scorer in the championship Niamh McEvoy returns at centre-forward having overcome a foot injury that kept her out of the Monaghan game while Jennifer Dunne is named to start at corner forward. Making way for McEvoy and Dunne are Oonagh Whyte and Niamh Hetherton.

DUBLIN (v Kerry); Ciara Trant (St Brigid's); Éabha Rutledge (Kilmacud Crokes), Niamh Collins (Foxrock Cabinteely), Martha Byrne (Cuala); Aoife Kane (Kilmacud Crokes), Sinéad Goldrick (Foxrock Cabinteely), Olwen Carey (Thomas Davis); Lauren Magee (Kilmacud Crokes), Siobhan McGrath (Thomas Davis); Carla Rowe (Clann Mhuire), Niamh McEvoy (St Sylvester’s), Lyndsey Davey (Skerries Harps); Sinéad Aherne (St Sylvester’s), Noelle Healy (Mourneabbey), Jennifer Dunne (Cuala).

Subs: Rachel Fleming (Kilmacud Crokes), Rachel Ruddy (Ballyboden St Enda's), Emma McDonagh (Foxrock Cabinteely), Caoimhe O’Connor (Clontarf), Kate Sullivan (St Sylvester's), Siobhan Woods (Raheny), Oonagh Whyte (Clann Mhuire), Niamh Hetherton (Clontarf), Hannah O’Neill (Foxrock Cabinteely), Lucy Collins (Na Fianna), Orlagh Nolan (Ballinteer St John's), Muireann Ní Scanaill (Fingallians), Sarah Fagan (Clontarf), Ciara McGuigan (Thomas Davis).

KERRY(v Dublin): L Fitzgerald; A O’Reilly, E Lynch, J O’Sullivan; A O’Connell, T Breen, C Murphy; L Scanlon, A Brosnan; N Carmody, A Galvin, E Dineen; S Houlihan, L Ní Mhuircheartaigh, H O’Donoghue.