A 16-point half-time deficit wasn’t a true reflection of Dublin’s first half performance against Kilkenny according to Niall Ó Ceallacháin.

The Dubs looked a beaten docket when they trailed by 0-10 to 4-12 at the break, but stormed back in the second half to reduce the deficit to just two points before a late Billy Ryan goal sealed a thrilling 5-19 to 3-21 Leinster SHC victory for the Cats at UPMC Nowlan Park.

"It might sound strange, but I thought we were hurling well for long periods. You can't concede four goals like we did and not expect to be well down at half-time. But there was a lot actually going well in that first half," the Dublin manager told RTÉ.

"Every stat you could look at, it was actually a very, very tight first half. We just said that to them [at half-time] and just said it for what it was. That the four individual errors, we should have been better in each of those four goals.

"We have to be better than that. But loads of other parts of the game were basically going well. We knew could cause them a bit of trouble."

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