Dublin seem the only ones suffering a lack of homesick blues

Playing three consecutive games away from home will provide a rare test of Dublin, writes Paul Keane

HOME COMFORT: If you take Croke Park as being Dublin's home - and, frankly, who doesn't anymore? - then over the last 10 seasons they have played 104 of their 145 league and Championship games at home.

On an early February weekend in 2010, the Dublin footballers smashed an old hoodoo by beating Kerry, in Killarney, for the first time in 28 years.

Then Kerry manager Jack O’Connor missed the National League opener because of a family bereavement so selector Ger O’Keeffe stood in to speak to the media afterwards.