Anthony Daly is under no illusions about the size of the task his Dublin team faces in Sunday's Leinster SHC final against Kilkenny. The former double All-Ireland winning captain with Clare joked that Dublin got the monkey off their backs by beating Wexford in the semi-final, but that they now face a much bigger task in shaking off the 'gorilla' that is Brian Cody's all-conquering side. "Beating Wexford was the real monkey on the back," he said. "But as somebody said to me during the week ' what about the gorilla now!' It's a monstrosity - they are absolutely awesome." However, Daly feels a certain amount of pressure has been lifted off Dublin now they have finally reached the Leinster final. "I would say the pressure is off us. We're through to the quarter-final and we've a Leinster final to look forward to. That was probably the target all year. It's fantastic. "We're lucky because what have we to fear? It's great to have this chance and there's great freedom in it. "I'm telling them to have real lash off it. We could get beaten by 20 points and people won't be surprised. If we do very well and push it close we'll be doing better. We're going to try to get the best out of ourselves and try to perform ourselves - that's the key from our point of view and we'll see where that takes us. "It's a huge mountain ahead of us and we're mad to have a go at it. There's great freedom in it. There was no great freedom in going down to Nowlan Park to play Wexford the last day because we had to get over them," he added. Tweet

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