Limerick footballer James Naughton I PICTURE: Sportsfile
FOUR Limerick GAA players have been named on the Munster squad for this weekend's Allianz Inter-Provincial Football Series in Croke Park.
Friday night will see Connacht face Leinster at 6pm followed by the meeting of Munster and Ulster at 8pm. On Saturday the opening match sees the two beaten teams from Friday night meeting at 5.30pm followed by the clash of the two Friday night winners at 7.30pm.
The backdrop to the event is the trialling of the seven core enhancements put forward by the Football Review Committee and the subject of a special congress at the end of November.
Friday night’s games will be shown live on TG4 and Saturday’s games will be shown live on RTÉ.
The Limerick quartet are Josh Ryan (Oola), James Naughton (St Senans), Danny Neville (Ballysteen) and Sean O'Dea (Kilteely-Dromkeen).
Only players who have completed their club commitments were available for selection. The Munster squad is managed by Cork senior football manager John Cleary with Limerick senior football manager Jimmy Lee among his selectors.
It's a Munster squad that includes players from all six counties - Limerick (4), Kerry (5), Cork (9), Clare (5) Waterford (4) and Tipperary (3).
MUNSTER: Josh Ryan, James Naughton, Danny Neville, Sean O'Dea (all Limerick), Damien Bourke, Tadhg Morley, Diarmuid O'Connor, Donal O'Sullivan, Killian Spillane (all Kerry), Darragh Cashman, Sean Meehan, Colm O'Callaghan, Chris Kelly, Chris Og Jones, Maurice Shanley, Matty Taylor, Tommy Walsh, Paul Walsh (all Cork) Eoin Cleary, Aaron Griffin, Emmet McMahon, Brian McNamara, Alan Sweeney (all Clare), Conor O'Currin, Dermot Ryan, Caomhin Walsh, Sean Walsh (all Waterford) and Darragh Brennan, Jimmy Feehan, Mark Stokes (all Tipperary).
Elsewhere, the Leinster squad is led by Dublin’s nine-time All-Ireland winning history makers James McCarthy and Stephen Cluxton with 11 counties represented.
Armagh’s All-Ireland winners have a strong presence in the Ulster ranks with Oisín Conaty, Aidan Forker, and Rian and Oisín O’Neill involved.
Connacht’s squad includes players from London and New York and includes Mayo’s Aidan O’Shea and Galway’s Cillian McDaid.
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