Tipperary face daunting task against Cork in ladies football Munster Championship

THE TG4 provincial ladies football championships get underway on Sunday, with Tipperary playing Cork in Cahir at 2pm.

Cork make the trip to Cahir as TG4 Munster Senior champions – and they’re the only team to date this year to score a victory over Kerry, the Lidl National League Division 1 winners and now many people’s favourites to land the TG4 All-Ireland title.  

Cork finished their Lidl NFL campaign on a positive note with an impressive victory over Meath and spirits will be high ahead of the championship.  

Goalkeeper Meabh O’Sullivan, Rachel Leahy, Katie Quirke and Orlaith Cahalane are all handed call-ups, as they replace Sarah Murphy, Eimear Meaney, Doireann O’Sullivan and Anna Ryan in the team that started against Meath.  

Tipperary, meanwhile, were left disappointed not to qualify for a Division 2 Lidl NFL Final, as defeat to Armagh on the final day of group matches ended the Premier County’s hopes of making it to Croke Park.  

Tipp will be very much up against it here and will hope that home advantage can count for something against pre-match favourites Cork.  

TIPPERARY: L Fitzpatrick; C O’Dwyer, M Curley (captain), E Cronin; S English, L Spillane, N Towey; AR Kennedy, L Morrissey; E Morrissey, M Creedon, A Delaney; A Fennessy, A Moloney, A McGuigan.  

CORK: M O’Sullivan; M Duggan, D Kiniry, R Phelan; S Kelly, E O’Shea, R Leahy; H Looney, S Leahy (capt.); L Coppinger, K Quirke, E Cleary; O Cahalane, E Kiely, C O’Sullivan.