Every player stepped up to the mark, we didn’t rely on returning county stars

Tomás Quinn praised his St Vincent’s team for avoiding the pitfall of relying on their returning county players Diarmuid Connolly and Ger Brennan.

The former Dublin forward put in his third consecutive man of the match performance and credited the team as a unit for seeing off Portlaoise.

Although Connolly and Brennan were welcomed back from suspension with open arms, Quinn said their availability wasn’t greeted with jubilation inside the camp: “I think maybe from the outside it seems more of a boost than it is from us as a team,” he said.