Defiance alive and well in Portlaoise

Portlaoise’s Leinster record these last four years illustrates the jump Dublin teams have had on them. Four different teams from the capital, a defeat each time.

“We’ve always been there or thereabouts,” says chairman Vincent Dowling about their trio of three-point losses and one in extra-time.

“Against Ballymun in 2012, we had our chances, just as we did last year before Brendan Egan overlapped and stuck a goal for Vincent’s and finished it.