Laois senior football manager Justin McNulty has named his team to face Wexford on Saturday.
Laois are heading to the Sunny South East to Wexford Park for Round 1 of the Leinster senior football championship for a 6pm throw in.
Almost every Laois team named so far this year has been the one that started the previous game.
But this one does actually show one change from the side that took to the field against Fermanagh two weeks ago.
Graiguecullen’s Danny O’Reilly has recovered from injury and comes into the team in place of Josh Hogan.
Other than that, the team is the same with captain Brian Byrne named at full forward – where he played against Fermanagh after starting in defence for the other six rounds.
On the bench, there is a welcome return for Portlaoise’s Damon Larkin.
He limped out of the Clare game with a hamstring issue but appears to have sufficiently recovered to be able to play some part.
But there is still no sign of St Joseph’s defender James Kelly – a key member of the Tailteann Cup run last year.
He got injured minutes before the start of the Kildare game and is understood to have done something similar before throw in against Fermanagh.
While Ballyroan-Abbey’s Shaun Fitzpatrick is also out after being struck down and hospitalised with meningitis.
Laois last met Wexford in February 2024 where they recorded a big win at this venue.
Wexford have also named their team for Saturday’s game and it contains eight players who featured 14 months ago.
Eoin Porter, Gavin Sheehan, Paraic Hughes, Liam Coleman, Niall Hughes, Eoghan Nolan, Kevin O’Grady and Ben Brosnan are all set to face Laois again.
LAOIS: Killian Roche; Ben Dempsey, Trevor Collins, Paddy O’Sullivan; Padraig Kirwan, Simon Fingleton, Aaron McEvoy; Conor Heffernan, Seamus Lacey; Kevin Swayne, Mark Barry, Danny O’Reilly; Niall Corbet, Brian Byrne, Ronan Coffey
SUBS: Conor Brown, Ryan Brady, Benny Carroll, Josh Hogan, Fionn Holland, Jonah Kelly, Liam Knowles, Damon Larkin, Cathal Lee, Brendan McDonald, Sean O’Neill
WEXFORD: Darragh Brooks; Michael Furlong, Gavin Sheehan, Liam O’Connor; Eoin Porter, Eoghan Nolan, Pairic Hughes; Liam Coleman, Niall Hughes; Tom Byrne, Shane Pettit, Mark Rossiter; Kevin O’Grady, Graeme Cullen, Ben Brosnan
SUBS: Colum Feeney, Sean Barden, Philip Dempsey, Dylan Furlong, Cathal Walsh, Conor Carty, Michael Kinsella, Rian Fitzpatrick, Sean Ryan, Cian Hughes, Robbie Brooks
