The Dublin team to face Kilkenny in their Allianz Hurling League Division 1 Group B opener at UPMC Nowlan Park includes 10 of the side that started last summer's shock All-Ireland SHC preliminary quarter-final loss to Laois.

Alan Nolan, Paddy Smyth, James Madden, Chris Crummey, Jake Malone, Tomás Connolly, newly-appointed captain Danny Sutcliffe, Ronan Hayes, Cian Boland, Oisín O'Rorke and Eamonn Dillon all started in Portlaoise, with Eoghan O'Donnell, Daire Gray, Jake Malone, Fergal Whitely and Rian McBride joining them in the starting XV for this afternoon's game.

Dublin (SH v Kilkenny): Alan Nolan; Paddy Smyth, Eoghan O'Donnell, James Madden; Chris Crummey, Daire Gray, Jake Malone; Fergal Whitely, Rian McBride; Tomas Connolly, Danny Sutcliffe, Ronan Hayes; Cian Boland, Oisin O'Rorke, Eamonn Dillon.

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