With the exception of Paul Brogan, Dublin manager Pat Gilroy will have a fully-fit squad to pick from for Sunday's Leinster SFC quarter-final against Louth.

The All-Ireland champions had to contend with a number of injuries and suspensions during the Allianz League, but eight weeks after their final round defeat to Cork, they now have virtually everyone back, including Bernard Brogan, Barry Cahill and Denis Bastick. The squad has also been strengthened by the addition of Emmett Ó Conghaile, Jack McCaffrey and Kevin O'Brien from Dublin's All-Ireland U21 winning team, with Ciarán Kilkenny set to join them after the Leaving Certificate.

"We'd be very conscious that lads go through the All-Ireland and then go playing with their clubs. Most of our guys were involved right through to early December with their clubs. If you are back to training on the first of January then that is a very long year," Gilroy said before a lunch to honour the 1953 Dublin footballers at Jury's, Croke Park Hotel yesterday.

"So the policy we took was that we gave people who had injuries loads of time to recover. We could have pressed Alan (Brogan) into service earlier, Bernard (Brogan) and Denis Bastick as well, but we felt 'no, let's try get them fully recovered and it might stand to us in the summer'.

"We have one injury in the panel, that's Paul Brogan, for the first time all year.

He continued: "That's one part of the story. The other part is that if you go out and do the same things people will have cottoned on to what you are doing so you have to bring something different to the party. Whether that's new people or different ways of playing that's what we'd be doing - not changing a whole pile, just a tweak here and there." Tweet

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