Just one change to the starting 15 for Saturday's Connacht Championship clash with Roscommon. Photo by Willie Donnellan
Manager Brendan Guckian has made just one change from the victory over New York to the Leitrim team to face Roscommon this Saturday in the Connacht Senior Football Championship Semi-Final in Pairc Sean Mac Diarmada.
Ballinamore Sean O’Heslin’s Dean McGovern will start in midfield in place of Mohill’s Domhnaill Flynn after his introduction turned the tide in Gaelic Park. Otherwise, Guckian has gone with the same starting 15 from the victory over New York.
McGovern’s introduction brings to nine the number of Leitrim clubs represented on the starting 15 with Mohill again having the biggest contingent with three players in Oisin Madden, Shane Quinn and Keith Beirne while Melvin Gaels and Fenagh St. Caillin’s have two each with one from Allen Gaels, St. Mary’s Kiltoghert, Aughawillan, Sean O’Heslin’s, Gortletteragh and Glencar/Manorhamilton.
The full Leitrim team list and subs is as follows:
1 Diarmuid McKiernan Allen Gaels
2 Paddy Maguire St. Brigid’s (Dublin)
3 Micheal McWeeney St. Mary’s Kiltoghert
4 Oisín Madden Mohill
5 James Rooney Glencar/Manorhamilton
6 Donal Wrynn Fenagh St. Caillin’s
7 Shane Quinn Mohill
8 Mark Plunkett Aughawillan
9 Dean McGovern Ballinamore Sean O’Heslin’s
10 Jack Heslin Gortletteragh
11 Emlyn Mulligan Melvin Gaels
12 Ryan O’Rourke Fenagh St. Caillin’s
13 Darragh Rooney Melvin Gaels
14 Keith Beirne Mohill
15 Brendan Gallagher Lucan Sarsfields (Dublin)
16 Gary Hickey Glencar/Manorhamilton
17 Noel Plunkett Aughawillan
18 Alan Armstrong Mohill
19 Domhnaill Flynn Mohill
20 Aidan Flynn Leitrim Gaels
21 Eoin Ward Carrigallen
22 Colm Moreton Leitrim Gaels
23 Damien Moran Bornacoola
24 James Mitchell Mohill
25 Keith Keegan Mohill
26 Nicholas McWeeney St. Mary’s Kiltoghert
27 Conor Gaffney Drumreilly
28 Ronan Kennedy Mohill
29 Caillian McGloin Melvin Gaels
30 Matthew Murphy Ballinamore Sean O’Heslin’s
SEE WWW.LEITRIMOBSERVER.IE FOR MORE NEWS IN THE BUILD-UP TO SATURDAY’S BIG MATCH.
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