Mickey Harte: Mayo have benefited from qualifier route

Mickey Harte refuses to accept Mayo are a weakened force just because they’ve come through the All-Ireland qualifiers for the first time in six years.

Having won the All-Ireland twice via the back-door route, no-one knows more about the healing powers of the qualifiers than the Tyrone manager, who has been in Mayo’s shoes and is wary of the massive threat they pose to his team in tomorrow’s All-Ireland SFC quarter-final.

“We have been in that place ourselves,” said Harte.