Lilies earned their shot at top level tilt

DUBLIN'S trip to Cedral St Conleth’s Park is just the third time the third-placed team in Leinster has had to play the Joe McDonagh winners.

- BY PAT NOLAN

In 2019, Dublin were beaten by Laois and while they beat Carlow two years ago with 10 points to spare in the end, they trailed at half-time and only burned them off late on.

"There's a lot of outside noise relating to it, in regards to the structure of the Championship and are we being put into a completely one-sided game," said Paul Dolan, one of the heroes of Kildare’s runaway victory over Laois last Sunday (above).