Mac Lochlainn out to break Dubs' Leinster monopoly

TWO years ago, Andriú Mac Lochlainn cut a frustrated figure on the Kildare bench as Dublin ripped through his side’s defence, pilfering 1-3 inside the first three minutes.

A corner-back by trade, he could have thought ‘there but for the grace of God...’ but Mac Lochlainn comes across as the kind of guy who would rather stick his head in the lion’s mouth than run for his life and his chance to do some taming came soon enough.

With just 15 minutes gone, he was let off the leash by Kieran McGeeney, stationed in a rattled full-back line that had a teeming Hill 16 at their backs and a buzzing Dublin forward line smelling blood after the early slaughter.