Who can bring a halt to Dublin’s winning habit?

It’s eight years since Dublin last lost a game of senior football in Leinster and Michael Fitzsimons has reason to remember it well.

The Dubs had claimed five straight provincial titles by the time he hooked up with Pat Gilroy’s squad in 2010 but that sequence would be shattered with the concession of five goals against Meath in that season’s semi-final.

The Cuala defender, only 21 at the time and a string of beans compared to the more muscular athlete who takes the field these days, was on Cian Ward that day and taken for 1-1 by the Wolfe Tones forward.