Ronan Fallon produced a man of the match performance as Dublin reached the last four of the Walsh Cup following a comfortable victory over NUIG at Naomh Mearnog in Portmarnock yesterday.

Dublin 2-16
NUI Galway 0-12

Sidelined for much of last season with a foot injury, the St. Vincent's centre back was back to his brilliant best as he turned defence into attack throughout the game. Dublin looked like taking control when veteran full forward Kevin Flynn's 24th minute goal gave them a 1-5 to 0-4 lead after 24 minutes. But the Galway students rallied to draw level on 0-8 to 1-5 at half-time.

But the second half belonged to Anthony Daly's side with four points from the in-form John Kelly helping them to victory. A David Curtin goal, after he was picked out with a short free from Alan McCrabbe, with 15 minutes remaining ended the game as a contest and sets the Dubs up for a semi-final date with the winners of today's game between Wexford and UCD on February 7.


Scorers - Dublin: J Kelly 0-5, K Flynn (0-1f), D Curtin 1-2 each, A McCrabbe 0-4 (0-4f), J McCaffrey 0-2, S Ryan 0-1. NUIG: F Coone 0-7 (0-6f), J Conlon 0-3 (0-2f), D Barrett, K Heagney 0-1 each. Tweet

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