New Dublin hurling manager Ger Cunningham was encouraged by his side's performance against Antrim.

Building on their 17-point victory over DIT in midweek, the Dubs registered another comprehensive victory (0-28 to 2-12) over Antrim at Parnell Park yesterday to set up a Walsh Cup semi-final against Laois next weekend.

"To score 28 points in match we'd be very happy with that. It was another good game. Except for the concession of two goals we were by far the better side," the former Cork goalkeeper told RTE.

"The two goals made it interesting for a while. But there were positives and some very good performances for this time of year.

"I thought Danny Sutcliffe showed great energy and great work rate. We're giving players an opportunity and there were three or four fellas playing their first senior games for Dublin today.

"We're looking at people and that was the purpose of today's exercise."

Cunningham was pleased with how the Dublin debutants performed.

"They all did quite well," he added.

"Conor Murphy, John Hetherton and Eoin O'Donnell - they all played their part and they were all playing senior inter county first time which sometimes takes a bit of getting used to, just to get the level of  the pace of the game but I thought they all did quite well."

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