Philly McMahon feels Dublin's defence is coping just fine without Rory O'Carroll and Jack McCaffrey.

Despite being shorn of two of their starting six defenders from 2015, the defending All-Ireland champions have comfortably retained both the league and Leinster SFC and are strong favourites to capture a fourth Sam Maguire Cup in six years.

Word on the street is that the Dubs are vulnerable at the back - particularly to high balls - but defensive stalwart McMahon is not unduly concerned:

"We believe we're doing good enough in defence. Obviously, in the Laois game they scored two goals but we were ahead a good bit at that stage," the Ballymun battler told the Dublin GAA website.

"It was good, again it was the first game and we learnt from that, we've tightened up since that and we're getting stronger each game and each training session as a defensive unit and that's from the forwards back.

"We never had a defensive system based around two players - it's based around the whole team from our forwards back - so it doesn't change if two players are not there."

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