Adrian O'Sullivan: 'Kilkenny have so many players that can damage you'

Dublin manager Adrian O'Sullivan is equally impressed with what Kilkenny have on the pitch and their backroom team as they prepare to take on Cork in Sunday's All-Ireland senior camogie final at Croke Park.

O'Sullivan recently saw the black and amber up front in this year's quarter-final, with the Dubs threatening a shock before Brian Dowling's side gained the upper hand to run out 13-point winners. A subsequent win over Galway at the last-four stage has the Leinster side just 60 minutes away from a 15th All-Ireland crown.

"Kilkenny seem to have an incredible focus this year," was O'Sullivan's summation of their year so far, when speaking on RTÉ's Game On.

"The only thing I can compare it to in Gaelic games is that they remind me a lot of the Limerick hurlers. They have so many players all over the field that can damage you.

"There was the feeling in previous years that if you could handle Ann Dalton and Denise Gaule you'd have Kilkenny's number but we man-marked Denise in the quarter-final, yet they have five other forwards that can score - the likes of Katie Nolan and Mary O'Connell. They are just so powerful."

In lauding the Kilkenny management set-up, O'Sullivan added: "If you peel the layers back and look at their management team, you have Philly Larkin, Brian Dowling and Pat O'Neill - one of the best centre-back ever to play hurling - they have a team full of winners behind them and so that focus and drive is coming out in their play.

"Kieran McGeeney said one time: 'If you want to box, you box; if you want to play football, play football' - and Kilkenny are a bit like that as well.

"If you want to take them on physically, you can, and they are more than happy to take on that challenge. If you want to try and out-hurl