Carroll makes it safe as Dublin win relegation dog-fight with Laois

Dublin 3-13 Laois 1-10

The press-box still more populated than the entire uncovered stand side of Dr Cullen Park in Carlow on Saturday.

He wore no colours, nothing to identify his county loyalty but didn’t need to. Every time he raised his voice in exhortation, which was often, his first two words were almost always the same. “C’mon Dublin.” Those lonely exhortations told, exactly, not just the story of this game, but of the desperation behind it.