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Cavan's winning team set to play on

CAVAN are unlikely to change the team which beat Meath in the last round of the National Football League for next Sunday's clash…

By SEAN KILFEATHER
Wed Oct 23 1996 - 01:00

CAVAN are unlikely to change the team which beat Meath in the last round of the National Football League for next Sunday's clash against Kildare. Dermot McCabe and Brendan Morris are now available, but the Cavan selectors are likely to keep faith with the side which turned in a fine performance against the All-Ireland champions.

Kildare would like to follow suit, but full-back John Finn has an ankle injury after the win over Kerry and this may bring about a shuffle in the defence.

Seamus Downey and Anthony Tohill are definite absentees for Derry as they set out on the long road to Killarney. Downey has cracked ribs after the victory over Tyrone and Tohill is recovering from an operation for a removal of a cyst from the cartilage in his left knee.

Gary McGill who missed the Tyrone match because of flu is fit again and the Bellaghy players who were unavailable for the first match will return to the squad. They are David O'Neill Paddy Downey, Karl Diamond and Joe Cassidy.

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With eight of their first-team players suspended, Meath will wait until some of the dust settles before picking the team to travel to Cork. The same applies to Mayo.

Manus Boyle will miss Donegal's meeting with neighbours Tyrone. Donegal will name the team tomorrow, but Boyle won't feature as he sustained a broken nose in a club game last Sunday. Cork and Kerry are expected to announce their teams later today.

Hugh Kenny is out of the Wicklow team for Sunday's league game against Roscommon at Aughrim. The Baltinglass man is out after picking up a serious hand "injury playing his first ever game of hurling at the weekend when he lined out for Kiltegan in a Junior championship match.

Former Tipperary and Munster footballer Paddy Morrissey has been appointed manager of the Tipperary football team. He succeeds his Galty Rovers club-mate Seamus McCarthy, who resigned from the post this year. Morrissey's appointment was recommended to the county board by the county's football board and his first task Will be to select a team to play Kilkenny in the League on Sunday in Kilkenny.