Dublin get into their championship stride as Wexford swatted aside

Dublin firmly consigned league relegation to the back of their minds when easing into championship stride with Saturday's Leinster quarter-final demolition of Wexford at Chadwicks Wexford Park.

Brian Fenton was orchestrator in chief as Dessie Farrell’s troops extended a 0-10 to 0-01 interval lead to 1-11 to 0-01 when the returning Con O’Callaghan pounced for a 40th minute goal as the Sky Blues struck all the right notes in a facile victory.

Wexford’s lowly status in Division 4 of the league was reflected in a rather abject challenge, and they are now left to try to regroup in the inaugural Tailteann Cup.

Dublin, meanwhile, await their fate in the draw for the provincial semi-finals on The Sunday Game, but will certainly encounter a truer test of their credentials.

Indeed, they demonstrated the gulf in class here, with nine different scorers as they extended their perfect run in Leinster to 34 games.

They were wide twice early on before Brian Fenton began to pull the strings as the gold-booted Dean Rock cracked the ice after nine minutes, before Fenton quickly doubled the gap.

Wexford centre-back Glen Malone did well to feed Eoghan Nolan to peg it back to 0-02 to 0-01 in the tenth minute.

But the home side were reduced to hopeful excursions thereafter while Fenton calmly orchestrated the visitors into the comfort zone.

Even Wexford's heroic gunslinger from the previous weekend against Offaly, Ben Brosnan, was seeking to add to the defensive shell, which Fenton helped crack as he together with Brian Howard and Rock eased Dessie Farrell’s men clear by 0-05 to 0-01 before the Wexford goal twice survived close shaves.

Cormac Costello found Fenton from the left corner and the latter offloaded to O’Callaghan who picked out defender John