Dublin boss Gilroy turns to new blood for Royals battle

IT WAS impossible to avoid that end-of-term feeling around the DCU campus yesterday where the student body was conspicuous by its absence and Pat Gilroy named his first championship side.

It wasn’t those names on the teamsheet caught the eye so much as those nowhere to be seen. No Ciaran Whelan. No Shane Ryan. No Bryan Cullen and no Jason Sherlock.

It’s Dublin, Jim, but not as we know it.