Dublin eager to get back to business

THAT’S the problem with the championship. Bow out and you have to wait anything up to 10 or 11 months to make amends and that can’t be easy after an exit as traumatic as Dublin’s last August.

How easy it is to forget now that it was the men from the capital and not Tyrone who approached that game so beefed up on confidence and with the odds seemingly stacked in their favour. Few saw them losing. None by 12 points.

A wrecking ball has been let loose on Dublin since. Paul Caffrey and his management team have been replaced by Pat Gilroy’s brains trust and only seven of the side that started that All-Ireland quarter-final will do so again on Sunday against Meath.