Cian O’Callaghan believes Dublin can beat drop

The Dublin hurlers will avoid the drop zone should they reproduce Saturday’s sterling performance on the closing two weekends of action, according to full-back Cian O’Callaghan.

Dublin annihilated Cork to pick up their second win of the campaign and, in the process, move to third in Division 1A. But with their final two games involving the reigning league and All-Ireland champions, Waterford and Kilkenny, further points will be hard come by.

“The way the league is, with five matches, if you lose one or you lose your first match [as we did], you’re straight away under pressure. We talked about that a bit, that we just can’t get into that relegation battle. If we keep performing like we are, we probably won’t be,” reckons O’Callaghan.