Na Gaeil's Diarmuid O'Connor and Jack Barry go straight into the Kerry midfield for this evening's Allianz League showdown against Dublin in Tralee.

The pair only linked back up with Jack O'Connor's squad this week following their club's All-Ireland intermediate semi-final defeat to Steelstown Brian Og's last Saturday. However, O'Connor won't be able to call on their fellow Na Gaeil clubmate Stefan Okunbor as the ex-AFL recuit suffered a dislocated shoulder in that shock loss to the Derry champions.

There are some positional changes, the most notable one is that Sean O'Shea reverts to centre-forward, having started at midfield in the Kingdom's drawn opener away to Kildare.

Meanwhile, Dublin manager Dessie Farrell has bolstered his starting fifteen with the addition of All-Ireland winners James McCarthy and Con O'Callaghan.

McCarthy and O'Callaghan come in at wing-back and full-forward respectively and are part of four changes to the side which lost to Armagh seven days ago. Sean MacMahon and Ross McGarry also get the nod.

Throw-in at Austin Stack Park is 7pm.

Kerry (SF v Dublin): Shane Murphy; Dan O'Donoghue, Jason Foley, Tom O'Sullivan; Paul Murphy, Tadhg Morley, Brian O Beaglaioch; Diarmuid O'Connor, Jack Barry; Adrian Spillane, Sean O'Shea, Dara Moynihan; Paudie Clifford, David Clifford, Paul Geaney.

Subs: Shane Ryan, Killian Spillane, Micheal Burns, Gavin Crowley, Tony Brosnan, Graham O'Sullivan, Jack Savage, Dylan Casey, Stephen O'Brien, Greg Horan, Darragh Roche.

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Dublin (SF v Kerry): Evan Comerford; Lee Gannon, David Byrne, Sean MacMahon; James McCarthy, Brian Howard, John Small; Brian Fenton, Tom Lahiff; Sean Bugler, Ciaran Kilkenny, Niall Scully; Ryan Basquel, Con O'Callaghan, Ross McGarry.

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