Kilmacud focused on exorcising 2004 demons, reveals Kelleher

THE circumstances of Kilmacud Croke’s defeat in last year’s campaign served as a powerful motivation to the players to regain the AIB Leinster club football title.

It meant that little fuss was made about retaining the Dublin title, selector Robbie Kelleher pointed out yesterday.

"The guys were very focused this year. They were terribly disappointed, not so much with losing to Portlaoise in the semi-final last year, but the way it happened,'' he explained. "When they won the Dublin championship again there was no hype. They just wanted to go out and undo what they did last year and, in fairness, they did just that.''