Three changes on Tipperary ladies football team to play Kerry

A Munster derby pits provincial winners Kerry against Tipperary at Austin Stack Park in Tralee in the opening round of the TG4 All-Ireland Senior Championship at 2pm on Sunday.

Despite not reaching the Munster final, it was a good campaign for Tipp, who scored a notable victory over Cork.

Kerry claimed a third successive Munster title and come into this one buoyed by that success. When the sides met in Munster, Kerry edged Tipperary by two points and the visiting Premier County will hope to be competitive once again.

There are three changes to the Tipperary team that concluded its Munster campaign against Waterford, one of them enforced due to an ACL injury sustained by Nora Martin. She’s replaced by Emma Buckley, while Nicole Shelly and Aoibe O’Shea come in for Anna Rose Kennedy and Angela McGuigan.

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There’s just one change to the Kerry team that claimed the provincial title, with Danielle O’Leary replacing Leah McMahon in the full-forward line.

KERRY: M.E. Bolger; R Rahilly, D Kearney, E Lynch; A O’Connell, E Costello, A Dillane; A Galvin, M O’Connell; N Carmody, N Ní Chonchuír, C Evans; J Lucey, D O’Leary, S O’Shea (captain).

TIPPERARY: L Fitzpatrick; T Hoare, M Curley, E Cronin; K Cashman, E Buckley, S English; L Morrissey (captain), N Shelly; A O'Shea, L Cunningham, H Spillane; C English, E Morrissey, K Crotty Ryan.

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The match will be shown live on Spórt TG4 YouTube