‘Boy wonder’ Con O’Callaghan could be Dublin’s trump card

Dessie Farrell sold a neat dummy as a Dublin footballer and has carried an element of that same chicanery with him into management.

Three times so far in this season’s EirGrid U-21 football championship the Dublin manager has named an ‘official’ pre-match lineup and three times he has altered it wildly on match day.

The Dubs became the first Leinster team to claim four U-21 titles on the trot by beating Westmeath, Longford and Offaly last month.