Dublin survive spirited Wexford comeback

Dublin 0-13 Wexford 1-8

Such glamour seemed a million miles away yesterday in a soggy and bitterly cold O’Toole’s GAA Club in Coolock, where Dublin booked an O’Byrne Cup semi-final meeting with Meath after surviving a determined second-half comeback from Paul Bealin’s new charges.

Mattie Forde was again Wexford’s beacon, snaffling 1-3 on his return to the game after three months on the sideline. But the former Footballer of the Year was outdone by Alan Brogan, whose four-point haul from play was by no means the sum of his efforts.