Cian O'Sullivan is expected to miss Dublin's first two Allianz Football League games against Cork and Donegal as he continues his recovery from hip surgery.

The versatile Kilmacud Crokes clubman underwent the operation at the Santry Sports Clinic in October and won't return to full training until the end of next month. He is hoping to make his comeback against All-Ireland champions Kerry, who Dublin meet in the third round on Sunday, March 1.

"It was something that had been at me for the last two years, and I'd just been managing it," O'Sullivan said at an AIG promotional event in Dublin yesterday.

"I had a bit of time over the winter, where I wasn't playing, so best to get the operation done and get the issue seen to.

"Because I had been playing, game to game, and training in between was pretty limited in what I could do, because the hip was just flaring up the whole time. A lot of physio was required, and getting a lot of massages. I really was limited in what I could do on the training pitch, and then just progressively I was getting worse.

"The day of reckoning came the day after the Donegal game (the All-Ireland semi-final, which Dublin lost), as I was struggling to walk down the stairs. That was probably when it was at its worst. I played a bit with the club there after, and it just kept on flaring up. So I decided in October to get the operation done."

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