It’s all about summer now: Denis Bastick

Dublin midfielder Denis Bastick says last Sunday’s NFL Division 1 Final success was good but this team is focused on the Championship and will be measured by how they fare.

“We're in a present, here and now. And it's all about trying to perform.

"Maybe in the future, when I'm retired, you'll look back at the medals and what you won.

"But definitely not at this time. I'm really just focused on the Championship now and trying to do something there.”

At the start of the year winning a third league title on the spin did not feature in Dublin’s plans but yet after concluding their regulation matches on a winning streak they maintained that impressive form with victories of Monaghan (semi-final) and Cork (final).

“The start of the League, with the Sigerson and under-21, there are a lot of distractions and I suppose when we settled down, we got some good performances and we pushed on,” says the Templeogue Synge Street man.

"I suppose in a final, you need to perform. Everything came right on the day.

"We were after a performance, that's what we looked at and everything else followed. Great to win a final. But it's all about summer now."