Rational O’Brien turns focus towards the qualifiers

Lordy, but you’d have to feel for Wexford.

Dublin aside, no team has been so consistent in Leinster this last 10 years and yet all they have to show for their efforts are two provincial final defeats and, after this, six exits at the semi-final stage.

Players like Redmond Barry, Ciaran Lyng and David Murphy: where do they go from here? The obvious answer is into the draw for round two of the qualifiers but you wonder what could be in it for them.