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O’Mahony isdoubt after

sufferingconcussion

SPORTEvening Echo

GAABy JOHN HORGAN

O’Mahony isdoubt after

sufferingconcussion

Murray set for Cork City return

McCarthy on the double again

PETERO’MAHONY’Sinvolvement in thisSunday’s Six Nationsgame with Englandhinges on the Interna-tional Rugby Board’sconcussion guide-lines.

O’Mahony was con-cussed at the Millenni-um Stadium andwhile he has shownno ill-effects, his in-volvement againstEngland hingeson the Interna-tional RugbyBoard’s concus-sionguidelines.Ireland will

continue to monitor the fit-ness of Gordon D’Arcy andKeith Earls before announ-cing their team on Friday.D’Arcy has a dead leg and

Earls a shoulder injury sus-tained during the 30-22 open-ing-day victory over Wales.Centre Brian O’Driscoll,

prop Mike Ross and full-backRob Kearney are available forselection.England’s visit to Dublin is

already being viewed as achampionship deciderbetween the only two sideswho retain genuine Grand

Slam ambitions after Francewere upstaged by Italy.Scrum-half Conor Murray,

however, believes it is toosoon in the competition tostart talking of titleshootouts.“You can lose a Grand Slam

or Triple Crown in this game,but you can’t win it,” he said.“Even teams like Italy are

stepping up to the plate thisyear and there will be bigchallenges after Sunday.“England are confident and

have a right to be. They had abig win against New Zealandin the autumn and now con-vincing win against Scotlandon Saturday. They’ve everyreason to be confident and wewon’t begrudge them that.”

CORK double winner TeddyMcCarthy is going dual againthis season as manager to boththe hurlers and footballers ofNewcastle West GAA club inLimerick.McCarthy confirmed last

night he is to manage the club’ssenior footballers andintermediate hurlers in 2013.The Sars man took his first

session this week and is due tofinalise backroom set-ups forboth teams in the coming days.

McCarthy will hope to helpthe footballers after successivecounty final defeats toMonaleen andDromcollogher-Broadford.Boosting their chances will bethe 2012 County Premier U21football winning side.The Cork man will be hoping

to be the first ‘outside’ manager

to lead Newcastle West into achampionship campaign.His appointment in Newcastle

West comes months after anunsuccessful one-year spell asLaois senior hurling manager.At club level, he enjoyed

success with Bandon — guidingthem to the Cork IHC title in2011 and last year’s PIHCdecider. He also guided Bandonto last year’s Premier IHCdecider, but they succumbed toBallinhassig.

RUGBYBy SEAN McCARTHY

SOCCER

By NOEL SPILLANE

Peter O’Mahony (right) has to waitfor the IRB concussion board todecide if he can play this Sunday.While Conor Murray (below) islooking forward to what he expectsto be a bruising encounter.

DAN MURRAY will sign backfor Cork City as an amateurplayer later this week.City boss Tommy Dunne

confirmed the news at theteam’s training camp at FotaResort hotel last night and

the Cambridge-borndefender could wellend up on the coach-ing staff at Bishop-stown.“I am delighted to

see Dan on the wayback to the club eventhough he has workcommitments now out-

side of the football.He will sign back as an am-

ateur but if things go well forhim then there’s nothing stop-ping him from up-grading to aprofessional player again. Weare looking to bring him into acoaching role as well,” saidDunne whose side open theirpre-season campaign with afriendly against Leeds Unitedat Turner’s Cross tomorrownight (7.45)Dunne has Sean Brosnan

from Limerick in on trial thisweek and he is also in talks

with both Gary Buckley andDanny Morrissey.City play Leeds, Longford,

Cliftonville twice in theSetanta Cup, Cobh Ram-blers, Douglas Hall in theMunster Senior Cup and Wa-terford United in the comingweeks before they open theirleague campaign away toLimerick at Thomond Park onMarch 9.“We will finish off our

pre-season on March 1against Waterford and tomor-row night against Leeds, we’dhope to give everyone a runand basically field two differ-ent teams over the 90minutes,” he added.

Murray: Signs backwith Cork City.