The Connacht Squad has been announced by Padraic Joyce for this weekend’s Allianz GAA Football Interprovincial Series at Croke Park.
Connacht’s squad includes players from London and New York and is led by Mayo’s Aidan O’Shea and Galway’s Cillian McDaid.
Eight of the panel are from Galway. Connor Gleeson, Johnny McGrath, Sean Mulkerrin, Cillian McDaid, John Daly, John Maher, Matthew Tierney and Johnny Heaney. There are ten from Roscommon, six from Mayo, Two from Leitrim, Two from London and one from New York.
A standby panel of eight players have also been named with two from Sligo, New York and London and one each from Mayo and Leitrim.
The Leinster squad is led by Dublin’s nine-time All-Ireland winning history makers James McCarthy and Stephen Cluxton with 11 counties represented for the boys in green.
Armagh’s All-Ireland winners have a strong presence in the Ulster ranks and are led by Paddy Burns, Oisín Conaty, Aidan Forker, and Rian and Oisín O’Neill.
Kerry’s experienced duo Tadhg Morley and Diarmuid O’Connor headline the Munster squad.
Friday night will see Connacht face Leinster at 6pm followed by the meeting of Ulster and Munster 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.
Tickets are available from GAA.ie. Friday night’s games will be shown live on TG4 and Saturday’s games will be shown live on RTÉ.
Connacht (Galway Players In Bold)
1 Connor Gleeson, Galway
2 Johnny McGrath, Galway
3 Brian Stack, Roscommon
4 Sean Mulkerrin, Galway
5 Cillian McDaid, Galway
6 John Daly, Galway
7 Eoghan McLoughlin, Mayo
8 Jack Carney, Mayo
9 John Maher, Galway
10 Matthew Tierney, Galway
11 Bob Touhy, Mayo
12 Enda Smith, Roscommon
13 Diarmuid Murtagh, Roscommon
14 Aidan O’Shea, Mayo
15 Daire Cregg, Roscommon
16 Conor Carroll, Roscommon
17 Ruaidhrí Fallon, Roscommon
18 Mark Diffley, Leitrim
19 Johnny Heaney, Galway
20 Shane Brosnan, New York
21 Ultan Harney, Roscommon
22 Barry McNulty, Leitrim
23 Conor Cox, Roscommon
24 Donie Smith, Roscommon
25 Ciaran Murtagh, Roscommon
26 Diarmuid Duffy, Mayo
27 Fergal Boland, Mayo
28 Pat Spillane, Sligo
29 Aidan McLoughlin, London
30 Liam Gallagher, London
Standby Players
31 Paul Towey, Mayo
32 Keith Byrne, Leitrim
33 Shay Rafter, London
34 Eddie McGinness, Sligo
35 Cian Lally, Sligo
36 Joey Grace, New York
37 Shane Brosnan, New York
38 Daire Rooney, London
