Peter Fitzpatrick has praised the match-winning contribution of Daniel O'Connor.

The St Patricks clubman had only just joined the panel prior to the start of the championship but was on hand to strike the match-winning goal against Westmeath on Sunday, marking his intercounty debut in style having entered the fray as a substitute.

His manager told The Dundalk Democrat:

"Danny trained with the panel for the last four weeks and when Brian White and Brian Donnelly left I took three or four of the U21s in and that was the main reason he came in.

"We went to Bundoran last week for a training session and Danny was probably the most outstanding forward we had, so we knew he was there.

"But it's very hard for a young fella to come into a game like that there and he did a great job for us." Tweet

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