Top coaches to lead All Star New York trip

Brian Cody and his Limerick counterpart Richie Bennis have been appointed as managers of the Vodafone All Star Hurling Selections of 2006 and 2007 for next Saturday’s exhibition game at New York's Gaelic Park.

The two managers are former All Stars themselves and toured New York and the United States on early All Stars tours in the 1970s.

This is the first time that the All Stars have visited New York since the tours were revived under Vodafone’s sponsorship in 1999.

Just four of the All Stars of '06 and '07 – Brian Murphy (Cork), Jerry O’Connor (Cork), Ken McGrath (Waterford) and Dan Shanahan (Waterford) – are unable to travel.

Replacements have been selected for those players, as well as for the injured James 'Cha' Fitzpatrick and Henry Shefflin, who will travel, and the double award winners Tony Browne, Tommy Walsh and Eddie Brennan.

Amongst those selected to travel is the talented Laois star James Young who was nominated in both years for an All Stars award.

The full list of replacements is: Noel Hickey (Kilkenny), Derek Lyng (Kilkenny), Aidan Kearney (Waterford), Eoin McGrath (Waterford), John Mullane (Waterford), Donal O’Grady (Limerick), Mike Fitzgerald (Limerick), Seamus Hickey (Limerick), Conor O’Mahony (Tipperary), Shane McGrath (Tipperary), James Young (Laois), Keith Rossiter (Wexford), Alan Kerins (Galway), Neil Ronan (Cork).

The Vodafone All Stars who travel are: Donal Og Cusack (Cork), Eoin Murphy (Waterford), JJ Delaney (Kilkenny), Tony Browne (Waterford), Ronan Curran (Cork), Tommy Walsh (Kilkenny), Eddie Brennan (Kilkenny), Eoin Kelly (Tipperary), Martin Comerford (Kilkenny), Tony Griffin (Clare), Brian Murray (Limerick), Michael Kavanagh (Kilkenny), Declan Fanning (Tipperary), Jackie Tyrrell (Kilkenny), Michael Walsh (Waterford), Ollie Moran (Limerick), Stephen Molumphy (Waterford), Andrew O’Shaughnessy (Limerick), Henry Shefflin (Kilkenny), James 'Cha' Fitzpatrick (Kilkenny)..