Andrew Shore is due to make a long-awaited return to first-team action for the Wexford senior hurlers in Sunday’s Walsh Cup tournament opener against the Dublin Institute of Technology, which has been switched from Ferns to Blackwater (2p.m).

The exciting Davidstown-Courtnacuddy talent has not featured for the hurlers since helping Wexford to capture the Division 2 National League title back in May 2010, having committed himself to the footballers last season. But Shore is named at centre-forward for Sunday, while St. Martin’s Tomás Waters is selected at full-back for his first appearance since the Leinster championship clash with Kilkenny at Wexford Park in 2011.

Only three members of the team which exited the championship last year to Cork are selected for this season-opener, namely Harry Kehoe, Paul Morris and Richie Kehoe, who captains the team while Garrett Sinnott assists the University College Dublin in the tournament.

The team also sees the corner-back roles manned by the Kenny brothers from Buffers Alley, as seasoned campaigner Ciarán welcomes last year’s minor star Andrew into the thick of the action, against a DIT side which is rated ninth in the list of favourites for the third-level colleges’ Fitzgibbon Cup, at 25/1.

Wexford (SH v Dublin I.T.) – Niall Breen, Andrew Kenny, Tomás Waters, Ciarán Kenny, Richie Kehoe (capt.), Andrew Shore, James Tonks, Harry Kehoe, Eoin Doyle, PJ Nolan, Stephen Murphy, Gary Moore, Paul Morris, Michael O’Regan, Pádraig Doran.

Subs: Mark Fanning, Bobby Kenny, David Redmond, Eoin Moore, Eoin Quigley, Shaun Murphy, Daniel-Martin Carroll.