Cork hurlers name team for Ben O’Connor’s opening league clash with Waterford

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William Buckley is the sole debutant selected to start for Cork’s Allianz Hurling League Division 1A opener against Waterford at SuperValu Páirc Uí Chaoimh on Sunday (3.45pm).

The Rebel selection for Ben O’Connor’s first league match in charge features ten starters from last year’s All-Ireland hurling final defeat to Tipperary.

The five absent from that chastening loss last July are the retired Patrick Horgan, Eoin Downey, Ciarán Joyce, Tim O’Mahony and Brian Hayes.

Hayes’ St Finbarr’s team-mate Buckley – who scored ten points in UCC’s win over Garda College in the Electric Ireland Fitzgibbon Cup on Thursday – is named at right corner-forward, alongside Declan Dalton and Alan Connolly…

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