County rivalry set aside as International Rules duty comes first for Ireland squad

Manager Joe Kernan plays down differences team-mates may have had with one another, writes John Fogarty.

Eight days out from the International Rules test against Australia, Diarmuid Connolly will join up with Lee Keegan and the Ireland squad for the first time tomorrow evening.

The pair will likely mark each other in an in-house game in Carton House but the Mayo defender expects bygones to be bygones and none of the hostilities the pair shared in the drawn All-Ireland semi-final when Connolly was red carded to be repeated.