Kettle: Dubs ride to rescue

DUBLIN County Board chairman Andy Kettle has claimed Anthony Daly’s hurlers saved the GAA’s bacon following the Leinster rugby team’s qualification for the Heineken Cup final on Saturday.

Kettle believes the Allianz Hurling League Division 1 final victory over Kilkenny, the county’s first piece of senior national silverware in 16 years, went a long way to subdue the amount of coverage given to Leinster’s win against Toulouse.

“In the context of the Leinster win on Saturday,” said Kettle, “if we hadn’t won on Sunday they would have had all the publicity in the world and the GAA in general would have lost out.”