Boland brace for devastating Dubs

Dublin were clearly on a mission in Dr Cullen Park on Saturday after being ousted by Wexford last week.

From the off their defence broke up Carlow’s first attack and corner forward James Roche gave a glimpse of what was to come as he rounded his marker and calmly slotted the opening point.

Óisín O’Rourke scored a 15th minute goal which all but ended the match as a contest and another goal by Cian Boland helped them into a 2-11 to 0-2 interval lead.