Gilroy happy with away day form

WITH Cork and Kerry to visit Croke Park this month, we are going to hear a lot about Dublin’s ‘spring series’ but it’s their away form that marks Pat Gilroy’s side out as one of football’s coming forces.

Saturday night’s defeat of Armagh at the superbly-renovated Athletic Grounds made it four from five on the road in the National League in the last 12 months from a team that struggled beyond Newland’s Cross for so long.

Citadels in Kerry, Mayo, Tyrone and Armagh have now all been sacked by the boys in blue in recent times and, just as he did last year, Gilroy admitted that such raiding parties are worth far more than the mere two points.