Dub-tastic

It was weekend for the Sky Blues to remember. The Heineken Cup was celebrated in Dublin, until the Leinster team returned on Sunday evening to the capital.
But the real Dublin sporting achievements took place in Portmarnock, North County Dublin, where seniors and minors won in perfect harmony.

First up, a re-vamped Dublin Senior Football team under Pat Gilroy got the better of Mayo in a Challenge game on Friday night. They were poor in the first half, with only Dermot Connolly showing anything like his game face. The second half, though, with the Dubs totally changed, was a different affair.

Eamonn Fennell, despite his lack of club football, was huge in the middle of the park, while Blair Kelly shone at wing forward, with Jayo and Mossy looking dangerous inside. It was a night for experiments, some worked and some just gave Gilroy a headache ahead of June 7th.

I covered the game for all of the National Daily Newspapers in Ireland, filing my copy on the whistle.

Then the next day, in glourious sunshine, Dublin minor footballers finally put Laois to the sword. It was an interesting game to watch, especially being sandwiched between two very vocal Laois hacks. They were to be disappointed though, as Dublin move onto a Leinster semi against Offaly.

I wrote on this game for the Sunday Star and Irish Daily Star.

Those like Gerry Harrington and John Costello will hope the same symmetry happens on Leinster final day, but both sets of teams and team managements have a lot of miles to cover before that.