Dolan: Big six at a different level

Dessie Dolan has identified a super six of privileged counties in the football championship who have left everyone else in their wake.

Critically, the Westmeath ace believes the Dublin team they will face in the Leinster quarter-finals this weekend are among the group. And Westmeath aren’t.

The 33-year-old admitted that as he winds down his career, he has been struck by the gap that has developed between the haves and the have nots. He said the 17 and 18-point drubbings administered to Tipperary and Limerick respectively at the weekend highlights the ever widening chasm.