The lads showed fantastic character: Ger Cunningham

Dublin hurling manager Ger Cunningham highlighted the “character” his team showed to comeback from eight points down at one stage of the opening half to defeat Limerick in Saturday’s All-Ireland SHC qualifier in Thurles.

"The lads showed fantastic character, really good character to come back from eight points down," said Ger.

"To get it back to four just before half-time gave us momentum and a huge opportunity in the second half to drive on."

Dublin’s heroic Paul Ryan said: "We're just delighted to be back on the horse. We were hurting a lot after the Galway game and then we didn't play too well against Laois the last day.

"I thought the first half was rough enough but we pulled it out of the fire in the end.

"In the second half we seemed to get a bit of a rhythm, upped it a gear and started to play like we know we can."