The Laois senior football team has been named ahead of Sunday’s historic Tailteann Cup clash with New York.
Manager Justin McNulty has named the same side that lost out to Fermanagh last week.
That means that Dylan Kavanagh, Kieran Lillis and Evan O’Carroll, who all went off injured, are named to start.
James Kelly is not fit enough to return but there is a boost for Laois as Stradbally’s Eoin Buggie is back on the bench.
History will be made on Sunday as Laois will play New York for the first time ever.
It means that Galway, Sligo and Waterford are the only three teams that Laois have not played in the championship.
If Laois win, they will progress to the quarter finals which are scheduled for the following week.
Here, they will face either Down, Kildare or Sligo.
LAOIS: Killian Roche (Killeshin); Dylan Kavanagh (The Heath), Kieran Lillis (Portlaoise), Mark Timmons (Graiguecullen); Seamus Lacey (Ballylinan), Brian Byrne (Graiguecullen), Simon Fingleton (Park-Ratheniska); Damon Larkin (Portlaoise), Conor Heffernan (Killeshin); Mark Barry (O’Dempsey’s), Eoin Lowry (Killeshin), Kevin Swayne (Portlaoise); Rioghan Murphy (Portarlington), Evan O’Carroll (Crettyard), Paul Kingston (Arles-Killeen)
SUBS: Conor Brown (Portlaoise), Eoin Buggie (Stradbally), Ciaran Burke (Crettyard), Niall Corbet (Clonaslee-St Manman’s), Brian Daly (St Joseph’s), Mikie Dempsey (St Joseph’s), Niall Dunne (Courtwood), Shaun Fitzpatrick (Ballyroan-Abbey), Fionn Holland (O’Dempsey’s), Jack Lacey (St Joseph’s), Aaron McEvoy (Ballyroan-Abbey)
