Sean Cavanagh is one of six Tyrone players in the Rules panel

Ulster have 24 players included in manager John O'Keefe's provisional 66-man International Rules panel for next October's series against Australia.

Tyrone and Donegal have six apiece - the biggest representations from any county. All-Ireland champions Armagh have five players in the frame.

Derry contribute three players to the panel while Down have two with Fermanagh and Monaghan one apiece.

The squad will be reduced to a travelling party of 26 once the All-Ireland Championship has been concluded.

Kerry's Seamus Moynihan will again lead the squad that relinquished their title last season when losing both Tests at Crooke Park.

The first Test against Australia will be in Perth on 24 October and the second in Melbourne a week later.

Provisional panel: Cormac Sullivan, Trevor Giles, Darren Fay, Evan Kelly (all Meath), Paddy Christie, Ciaran Whelan, Shane Ryan, Stephen Cluxton (all Dublin), Mattie Forde (Wexford), Dermot Earley, John Doyle, Enda Murphy, Anthony Rainbow (all Kildare), Tom Kelly, Brian 'Beano' McDonald, Padraig Clancy, Joe Higgins (all Laois), Ciaran McManus, Cathal Daly (both Offaly), Dessie Dolan, Damien Healy (both Westmeath), Paul Barden (Longford), Anthony Lynch, Graham Canty, Colin Corkery (all Cork), Declan O'Keefe, Seamus Moynihan, Dara O'Se (all Kerry), John Galvin, Stephen Kelly (both Limerick), Declan Browne (Tipperary), David Heaney, James Gill (both Mayo), Joe Bergin, Matthew Clancy, Padraig Joyce, Declan Mehhan (all Galway), David Casey, Gary Cox, Seamus O'Neill (all Roscommon), Kevin Cassidy, Brendan Devenney, Adrian Sweeney, Paul McGonigle, John Gildea, Shane Carr (all Donegal), Sean Martin Lockhart, Enda Muldoon, Niall McCusker (all Derry), Brendan Coulter, Dan Gordon (both Down), Stephen McDonnell, Paul McGrane, Dairmuid Marsden, Kieran McGeeney, John McEntee (all Armagh), Thomas Freeman (Monaghan), Barry Owens (Fermanagh), Sean Kavanagh, Cormac McAnallen, Peter Canavan, Colin Holmes, Kevin Hughes, Eoin Mulligan (all Tyrone), Martin Farrelly (Louth), Shane Canning (Leitrim), Tadgh Kennelly (Kerry/Sydney Swans)

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