Extra touch of class will get Gilroy men over line

Have Dublin answered all the questions? Donegal will test them out in the key areas tomorrow.

WE probably didn’t need Marc Ó Sé and Tom O’Sullivan’s heroic performances against Mayo last weekend to inform us the days of playing Gaelic football without giving your full-back line protection are long gone.

We already had ample evidence of that in Dublin’s demolition of Tyrone a fortnight earlier. While Mickey Harte and his players were reluctant to attribute their heavy defeat to the absence of a sweeper, it was uncharacteristically naive of them to assume Dublin’s superior power, pace and all-round energy wouldn’t thrive on such freedom.