McCaffrey cool on league rewards as championship looms

It was Mickey Harte that first suggested that an All-Ireland win on the back of a spell in Division 2 of the football league was highly unlikely.

That same logic would appear to apply to hurling, making Saturday’s battle between Dublin and Limerick for promotion back to the top flight hugely significant.

After sitting out last weekend’s comfortable win over Carlow, John McCaffrey will return as Dublin captain and attempt to lift a vital piece of silverware, perhaps the most important of the entire season.