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Limerick Senior Football panel announced ahead of 2026 League opener
Limerick Senior Football panel announced ahead of 2026 League opener
The Limerick Senior Football panel has been announced ahead of the 2026 Senior Football League opener against Laois on Saturday, January 24
Limerick Senior Football Manager, Jimmy Lee, has revealed his 2026 Limerick Senior Football Allianz Football League panel ahead of this weekend’s opening game away to Laois.
The squad announced for this year’s league has seen some changes with the majority of the 37-man squad remaining the same.
For a second year in a row, Dromcollogher-Broadford’s Cillian Fahy has been named as captain for the 2026 campaign off the back of what was a highly successful 2025 for the Limerick footballers.
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The Treaty men will be hoping to build on 2025’s momentum, which saw themreach the Tailteann Cup final, booking them a match in Croke Park last July, where they gave Kildare a tough game, narrowly losing out on the cup and what would have been an automatic place in the last-16 of the 2026 All-Ireland Finals.
The 2026 squad is dominated by County Champions Mungret St Paul’s with six players making the panel, as Jack Mahon, Jack McCarthy, Jason Hassett, Killian Ryan, Oisín Moss, and Ronan McElligott all get a call-up.
Matching the Mungret St Paul’s representation on the panel are strong footballing side Father Casey’s with Diarmuid Buckley, Eliah O’Riordan,Mark McCarthy, Rory O’Brien, Sam Quigley, and Sean Kilbridge making the 37-man squad.
Representing Adare are Jeffrey Alfred, Paul Maher, and Oran Collins, with both Danny Neville and Jamie Dolan putting on the green jersey to represent Askeaton-Ballysteen-Kilcornan.
Newcastle West are happy to see Darren O’Doherty, Emmet Rigter, and Lee Woulfe all receive a call-up this year.
Captain Cillian Fahy is joined by fellow Dromcollogher/Broadford clubman Michael Fahy in the squad. Vice captain Barry Coleman is joined by Adam Shanagher and Andrew Meade of Rathkeale.
Colm McSweeney of Gerald Griffins, and both Robbie and Tommie Childs of Galtee Gaels will be joined by teammate Sean Clancy in Jimmy Lee’s squad.
Peter Nash and Tony McCarthy of Kildimo-Pallaskenry, Conall O’Duinn of Monaleen, Cormac Woulfe and James Naughton of St Senan’s, Shane Cross and Kyle Mullins of St Patrick’s all make up the squad.
Mungret St Paul’s Jack Mahon made the transfer from his homeclub in Mayo to join Mungret St Paul’s this year with fellow inter-county representative, Brendan Carr of Dunmore MacHales, Galway making up memebrs of the squad.
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