sublime kerry annihilate dublin in croke park rout

... alan brogan was well aware of that and after using jason sherlock’s run down the right, he went alone and struck one goalwards off the outside of his right boot, only to see diarmuid murphy tip it on to the crossbar and away to safety ... early signs were good as he snatched cluxton\'s kick out to roars of approval, then fed it to bernard brogan who repeated his brother\'s trick of hitting the crossbar ... cooper twice drew the entire dublin full-back line in for tomas Ó sé to point two and by the time alan and bernard brogan scored their first points, the kingdom were 10 points to the good and four more were added before the break ... dublin were out early for the second half and first on the scoresheet through bernard brogan and then alan, the only two in blue who seemed able to hit the target ... gooch followed suit with another free before cluxton, left exposed again when alan hubbard got caught in the middle of cooper and declan o\'sullivan, brilliantly denied the latter a goal ... one came in practically their only cohesive move of the game when diarmuid connolly fed bernard brogan who offloaded for conal keaney to fire home ... dublin: s cluxton; d henry, d bastick, p andrews; p griffin (capt), b cullen (c o\'sullivan 28), b cahill (0-1); r mcconnell, d magee (c whelan 15); p flynn, d connolly (s ryan 63), b brogan (0-3); a brogan (0-3), c keaney (1-0), j sherlock (p burke 24)

dubs dig in for another leinster title

... pat gilroy’s side coped admirably after ger brennan was sent off in the 20th minute, while a stunning second half display from bernard brogan kept the lilywhites at a distance ... the hill was rocking early on as dublin set a frenetic pace and pointed through alan and bernard brogan, before barry cahill was allowed to stride unchallenged through the kildare defence and rifle his shot past tom corley ... jason sherlock added his first score and headquarters sensed another hiding, but kildare kept their cool and responded with scores from ronan sweeney, alan smith and pádraig o’neill ... that was until sherlock fielded alan brogan high ball and pivoted hit the net off his left boot ... by that time dublin had scored through substitute ciaran whelan, on to add some mettle to the midfield, the brogan brothers and keaney ... but it was bernard brogan who really stood up when needed, pointing five crucial scores in the last 10 minutes to take his tally to 0-07 and kill off kildare’s hopes

brogan stresses need for accuracy

... alan brogan has admitted that the dublin attack will need to be more clinical in front of the posts if the county are to reclaim the all-ireland title for the first time in 14 years ... pat gilroy's side hit 17 wides in sunday's victory over meath in a match they should have won comfortably and brogan feels that such profligacy would be punished by stronger opposition

underwhelming curtain raiser for all concerned

... darren magee stormed onto a bernard brogan pass in the opening seconds only to roll his shot wide ... there were notable differences from previous campaigns with alan brogan dropping deep at centre forward into a play-making role, still chipping in with some decent scores, while captain paul griffin was operating at centre back ... granted, cian ward and bray pushed them into a temporary 0-5 to 0-3 lead before the wheels fell off their challenge; dublin striding clear with brennan’s levelling strike followed up by two quick points apiece from the brogan brothers ... brian farrell made it a two-point game on 43 minutes but dublin’s response was immediate with alan brogan rifling over his third of the day, and keaney his fourth free ... : s cluxton; d henry, d bastick, a hubbard; g brennan (0-1), p griffin (capt), b cahill; r mcconnell, d magee; p flynn, p andrews (0-1), b brogan (0-2, one free); c keaney (0-5, all frees), m davoren (0-2), a brogan (0-3) ... : c whelan for r mcconnell, j sherlock for b brogan (both 49 mins), d connolly for p flynn (temp, 52–57 mins), p burke for m davoren (54 mins), d connolly for p andrews (59 mins), b kelly for p flynn (69 mins) : p o’rourke; a moyles, k reilly, e harrington; s kenny, n mckeigue, c mcguinness; m ward (0-1), n crawford; s mcanarney (0-2), s bray (0-1, capt), b meade; c ward (0-4, two frees, 45), c king (0-1), b farrell (0-2)