Dublin will give Offaly ‘total respect’, Billings pledges

DUBLIN will give Offaly the respect ‘they deserve’ in Sunday’s Leinster SFC semi-final according to selector Dave Billings.

Billings admits the champions face the challenge of having their players fresh after the gruelling test from Meath commenting: “it will be a titanic struggle.

“We want to win and avoid the qualifiers to get to a Leinster final. They want to win to avoid the Tommy Murphy Cup. The stakes are very high.