Community Radio Kilkenny City\u2018s World of Gaelic Games show.<\/a>\u00a0<\/p>\n\u201cWe have a very good record in Parnell Park. I think we\u2019re actually unbeaten up there in championship, so I\u2019d be positive enough if we can get our full complement of players on the field without any injuries between now and then we can take Dublin most definitely.<\/p>\n
\u201cThey\u2019re not a Dublin team that would have beaten us there (in 2013) in Portlaoise. They wouldn\u2019t be as classy as that. We have to replicate the performance in the second half (v Kildare) and we will beat Dublin.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n
Comerford accepts Kilkenny haven\u2019t been consistent in their provincial campaign to date but envisages a Kilkenny-Galway Leinster final.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe\u2019re playing on a pitch we\u2019re familiar with against a team who I don\u2019t think would be as happy playing in Croke Park as we would. But I wouldn\u2019t go any further than this game on Sunday at 2 o\u2019clock.<\/p>\n
\u201cI\u2019d be looking for an immediate repeat of what went on in the first nine minutes of the second half. We showed we are champions, we were aggressive in the tackle, we were getting out in front, we were getting the ball and taking them on in the forwards and scoring.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n
Meanwhile, over 15,000 tickets have been sold for Saturday\u2019s Kerry-Donegal All-Ireland SFC Round 1 game in Fitzgerald Stadium.<\/p>\n
A crowd of up to 25,000 is expected in Killarney with the promise of good weather at the weekend.<\/p>\n
Captain Michael Langan and Ciar\u00e1n Thompson have returned to training ahead of the game. Langan missed the Ulster SFC quarter-final defeat to Down last month after rolling his ankle in training but could be available for the trip south.<\/p>\n
Thompson tore his anterior cruciate ligament in the All-Ireland final defeat to Kerry last July and underwent surgery the following month. It is believed Donegal\u2019s Round 2 clash in the middle of next month is a more realistic target date for his return.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Former Kilkenny captain Andy Comerford says Dublin \u201care no great shakes\u201d ahead of Sunday\u2019s Leinster SHC final round…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":458943,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[177329,1965,85426,2179,61,60,14611,112],"class_list":["post-458942","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-championship-2026","tag-hurling","tag-leinster-gaa","tag-dublin-gaa","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-kilkenny-gaa","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/458942","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=458942"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/458942\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/458943"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=458942"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=458942"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=458942"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}