Aussie Rules star Zach Tuohy hailed St. Vincent's "professionalism" after they put his Portlaoise side to the sword in yesterday's Leinster club SFC quarter-final at O'Moore Park.

What was expected to be a close affair turned into a stroll in the park for the Marino men, who look more than capable of putting All-Ireland titles back-to-back. Tuohy, who will fly back to Carlton tomorrow to begin pre-season training, was suitably impressed, saying in the Irish Daily Star: "I think they're going to take some beating this year. I'm not sure who's going to do it. They're an incredibly well organised side.

"They're the closest thing to a professional outfit in the GAA at the minute, so very hard to beat."

Vincent's manager Tommy Conroy believes the Dublin kingpins have things to work on ahead of Sunday week's provincial semi-final against Garrycastle.

"We created four clear goal chances early on and yes, possibly could have had a penalty, and missed them," he said.

"When you're creating chances it's a plus but we needed to be more clinical, which we weren't.

"Thankfully, when we got them in at half-time we talked about what needed to be done. We were doing a lot of good things, like last year.

"It was just the finishing. We weren't finishing the moves off and we put that to rights quickly."

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