Gilroy gives youth a chance

THE jury is still out on Pat Gilroy’s attempts to inject new blood into a Dublin team that plateaued under Paul Caffrey but no-one can accuse the St Vincent’s clubman of playing it safe.

The side that faced Meath in the Leinster quarter-final showed seven changes from the starting 15 which had suffered such a calamitous defeat against Tyrone in the previous year’s All-Ireland semi-final.

It was a side peppered with unfamiliar faces, whether they were rookies or men with next to no championship exposure, and Gilroy was at it again yesterday, parachuting in a novice for Sunday’s clash with Westmeath.