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Replying To BarneyGrant: " Replying To Fionn: "Dublin squad to face Louth in the Leinster Football Semi Final in Portlaoise on Sat evening, has just been announced:- Comerford Murchan Doran Byrne Lahiff McMorrow Kennedy POCB Howard Bugler Scully Kilkenny Small McGinnis CON <i>subs:-</i> O'Sullivan, MacMahon, E.O'Callaghan, O'Connor, Murphy, Guiden, Dunne, Theo, N.O'Callaghan, Luke, Costello. Great to see some of our injured players back and ready to go. If we click, we have the players in that squad to give us a good chance v current favourites and Leinster champions Louth. We are still missing 4 players, but it is better than I expected."</div>No sign of Gannon. That's not good. Need him badly but at this stage seems unlikely we'll see him." Was always impressed with Lee Gannon when I saw him play. Wonder that's the situ there. foreveryoung (USA) - Posts: 2509 - 01/05/2026 21:25:10 2670286 Link
Replying To brayballer: " Replying To Fionn: "Dublin squad to face Louth in the Leinster Football Semi Final in Portlaoise on Sat evening, has just been announced:- Comerford Murchan Doran Byrne Lahiff McMorrow Kennedy POCB Howard Bugler Scully Kilkenny Small McGinnis CON <i>subs:-</i> O'Sullivan, MacMahon, E.O'Callaghan, O'Connor, Murphy, Guiden, Dunne, Theo, N.O'Callaghan, Luke, Costello. Great to see some of our injured players back and ready to go. If we click, we have the players in that squad to give us a good chance v current favourites and Leinster champions Louth. We are still missing 4 players, but it is better than I expected."</div>That squad is good enough to beat Louth. I was wary of Meath but I dont think Louth are as good as they made out to be .Dubs by 4 oe 5 points is my forecast.Paddypower has Louth favourites and not one Leinster team in top 8 contenders for All Ireland with the bookies.They even have Cork ahead of us.Id fancy Dubs every day against the Langers." Have 50 treble on Louth, limerick and Kildare for weekend hlynch12 (Limerick) - Posts: 5 - 01/05/2026 23:02:52 2670304 Link
Minor hurlers drew with Galway. Both into semis with Cats and not exactly certain who else! BarneyGrant (Dublin) - Posts: 4257 - 02/05/2026 15:08:01 2670370 Link
Replying To BarneyGrant: "Minor hurlers drew with Galway. Both into semis with Cats and not exactly certain who else!" Wexford westmeath miss put sorry but thats unfair more points than kk i think or wexford and still miss out Gaaforlife2023 (Longford) - Posts: 1290 - 02/05/2026 15:54:26 2670382 Link
Replying To Gaaforlife2023: "Wexford westmeath miss put sorry but thats unfair more points than kk i think or wexford and still miss out" 100%. Only team to beat Dublin and beat them comfortably . BarneyGrant (Dublin) - Posts: 4257 - 02/05/2026 16:44:46 2670393 Link
Replying To Gaaforlife2023: "Wexford westmeath miss put sorry but thats unfair more points than kk i think or wexford and still miss out" Not fair on Westmeath at all. They beat Dublin by 7, and ended up with more points than Dublin and Kilkenny, but are out. Unfair system altogether. Viking66 (Wexford) - Posts: 19412 - 02/05/2026 17:26:00 2670401 Link
Each man did his duty. Not dead yet. BarneyGrant (Dublin) - Posts: 4257 - 02/05/2026 20:40:31 2670459 Link
Never in doubt.I expectes to beat Louth but thought it would be closer.Costello was magic tonight.We have nt gone away yet. brayballer (Wicklow) - Posts: 558 - 02/05/2026 20:50:26 2670465 Link
Excellent win. You have to be happy with that All credit to them today Beelzedub (Dublin) - Posts: 499 - 02/05/2026 21:01:05 2670475 Link
Replying To Beelzedub: "Excellent win. You have to be happy with that All credit to them today" Looking like an easy regaining of Leinster title for Dublin. winatallcost (Meath) - Posts: 987 - 02/05/2026 21:05:14 2670479 Link
Very unfair and a stupid system to be honest. I'm not a fan of these cross play groups or Swiss model, whatever it's called. Teams are competing for spots against teams they're not even playing. Theoretically Westmeath, Galway and Wexford could have won all of their games and one of them would be going out regardless. WanPintWin (Galway) - Posts: 2784 - 02/05/2026 21:12:20 2670486 Link
Replying To winatallcost: "Looking like an easy regaining of Leinster title for Dublin." I hope so, but wouldn't be getting ahead of things. Dubs aren't what they were, so I'd fully expect it to be a competitive hard won Leinster title in 2026, regardless of who wins it. Fair play to Dublin today, that was a big win. Beelzedub (Dublin) - Posts: 499 - 02/05/2026 21:18:23 2670490 Link
Brilliant win, hopefully we can kick on and win Leinster and give championship a good shake. DubAbove (Dublin) - Posts: 2 - 02/05/2026 21:39:25 2670497 Link
Fair play to dublon better team won in the end biggest difference was the hunger louth didnt have it dublin cluld have swore they hadn't won leonter in 100 years. Few things you can't beat in football hunger and desire been 2 of the list. ITSCHOLAR (Carlow) - Posts: 331 - 02/05/2026 22:50:09 2670522 Link
Replying To Beelzedub: "I hope so, but wouldn't be getting ahead of things. Dubs aren't what they were, so I'd fully expect it to be a competitive hard won Leinster title in 2026, regardless of who wins it. Fair play to Dublin today, that was a big win." We not what we were but we still not bad beelzedub.We will win Leinster and lets see what it brings then.We now have a home game first.Could be a tough one.We could draw Donegal or Tyrone or Mayo. brayballer (Wicklow) - Posts: 558 - 02/05/2026 23:45:59 2670531 Link
Replying To brayballer: "Never in doubt.I expectes to beat Louth but thought it would be closer.Costello was magic tonight.We have nt gone away yet." Impressive win Dave Brown. peiledoir20 (Donegal) - Posts: 1584 - 03/05/2026 09:25:16 2670559 Link
Well well well - another day of shocks in the football championship. Not many expected both Monaghan and Dublin to win yesterday, including myself. Excellent intensity and will to win by the Dubs yesterday. Fought for everything. One could say, the players had a lot to prove after that Wicklow performance.. Keeping Louth to just 10pts was an excellent defensive showing. Although the Wee county did miss a few chances and rushed their shots occasionally. At 0-08 to 0-06 at half time, I felt we left a few scores behind us also, in that first half. Especially the goal chance by Paddy. But 9 points in a row in the 2nd half killed off the Leinster title holders Louth, who were going for their 4th Leinster Final appearance in a row. We scored 20pts with only one 2pointer (although I was sure Paddy's effort was a 2 pointer also...) Dubs had 7 scorers with Cossie the top man with 10pts. Impressed with McMorrow, and great to see Theo back. We were missing Con, Collie, Lee, Murch, Lorcan & Ross. Hopefully a couple of these will be back for the Leinster Final in 2 weeks. The after match interview by Niall Scully was excellent and a very honest assessment of the Dubs. So much for the much fancied Louth v Meath Leinster Final this year. Did both take their eye off the ball.? I suspect both expected to meet each other in the Leinster Final this year. There is plenty of banter between both sets of their fans on H/S after that result yesterday for sure.... Anyway, great unexpected score line yesterday. Hopefully it wasnt a flash in the pan by the Dubs and we can kick on somewhat from here.. Leinster Final v Kildare/ or Westmeath awaits in 2 weeks... Fionn (Dublin) - Posts: 4922 - 03/05/2026 11:49:05 2670588 Link
Replying To ITSCHOLAR: "Fair play to dublon better team won in the end biggest difference was the hunger louth didnt have it dublin cluld have swore they hadn't won leonter in 100 years. Few things you can't beat in football hunger and desire been 2 of the list." I agree - massive hunger by the Dubs yesterday. Huge desire to qualify to a Leinster Final, after not making it to one last year. We need to build on this now though. Fionn (Dublin) - Posts: 4922 - 03/05/2026 11:52:08 2670589 Link