Blue heaven as Dublin U-21’s deliver

ANYONE of the opinion that Leinster hurling is on its knees should have been in Parnell Park last evening where Dublin captured their first U-21 provincial title in 35 years in game that couldn’t fail to lift the hardest of hearts.

Kilkenny may still be the only show in town when it comes to the senior grade, but the winds of change have been sweeping through the underage grades for some time now and Dublin have been at the vanguard.

Beaten finalists this past two years at U-21, they made it third time lucky with a performance that wowed the packed ground of growing converts to the small ball’s cause in the capital. The chorus of “Come On Ye Boys In Blue” had to be heard to be believed.