Cork attacker Patrick Horgan says that 20 Dublin hurlers couldn't have stopped the rampant Rebels at Nowlan Park on Sunday.

The Leesiders came from behind to register a stunning national league semi-final victory over the Metropolitans and top-scorer Horgan (0-17) believes their opponents "could have had 20 men on the pitch, [but] they wouldn't have stopped us. It was just constant.

"They couldn't stop it, they did everything they could to do that and they couldn't, so there is a lot of credit due to us for that."

Horgan is very upbeat about the attacking talent Jimmy Barry-Murphy has at his disposal right now: "We probably have our best forward pick the last number of years and we're delighted with that," he notes in The Irish Examiner.

"We keep working hard up there and we know we can get the scores and see where we go. [Conor] Lehane with four points, Sham [Seamus Harnedy], Paudie [O'Sullivan] came on, touched the ball and got the goal. Luke [O'Farrell], [Alan] Cadogan are well able to score and there are lads coming off the line who are well able to score. Teams will be up against it trying to hold whoever's in there.

"We went in at half-time nine down, and obviously people will think we had no hope but we've come back from that before. We knew we would get chances and it was a question of whether we were going to take them or not."

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