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28th January 2018
08:39pm GMT

Given that they won the under-21 All-Ireland last year, it's hardly a surprise that their team is brimming with young talent, but it's one of the youngest teams we've seen in a long time.
Here's the team that started today.
From Nicky Quaid in the goals to Tom Condon and Seamus Hickey in the full back line, they've an old, wily and experienced rearguard - but from then on - it's a who's who of youngsters to have recently graduated from their underage teams.
Richie English at corner back is only finished his education in Mary Immaculate in Limerick. On the half back line, Diarmuid Byrnes is still in college in Limerick I.T and he's only 23. Beside him Ahane club man Dan Morrissey won a Fitzgibbon Cup with UL as recently as 2015, while on the other wing, debutante Paddy O'Loughlin is still under-21.
It seems like Cian Lynch has been on the scene for ages, but he only turns 22 this year. His midfield partner Paul Browne has a little more experience at 28.
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Tom Morrissey is still 21, and is part of UL's Fitzgibbon team this year, while Darragh O'Donovan at centre forward beside him was also part of last year's under-21 winning team. Barry O'Connell only finished his education in LIT last year.
Seamus Flanagan was also a member of that under-21 team last year and is in UCD, while Gearoid Hegarty is only 23 and finished in UL last year.
Then there's the aforementioned Gillane.
On the bench, Ronan Lynch, who would usually be starting is only 21, and the same goes for corner back Sean Finn. Rising stars Kyle Hayes and Peter Casey will be under-21 again this year. Barry Nash is 22.
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