Leitrim's Emlyn Mulligan insists that playing his club football in Dublin will bring him on as a player.

The Leitrim captain switched club allegiance from Melvin Gaels to St Brigid's after moving to Blanchardstown and the Longford-based Garda told the Irish Independent: "It's a totally different standard in comparison to what I was playing in Leitrim.

"If you went to a Leitrim club league game and then came up and played in the games I've played in recently, it's two different levels.

"That can only benefit me as a footballer, playing with such quality players, seeing can you do it against them.

"There is no comparison with the level, the standard of senior football here. No disrespect to Leitrim, but it is an acknowledged fact."

Mulligan is wary of the threat posed by London in Sunday's Connacht SFC semi-final at Carrick-on-Shannon.

"We've played London plenty of times and I suppose we know what they're capable of.

"One advantage Leitrim have, actually, is that we know London can beat us whereas other counties in Connacht take them for granted.

"But we know they can beat us and maybe we had that issue too last year when we went over there and we were lucky to get out with a small margin of a victory over them.

"I wouldn't read much into the league game this year (Leitrim beat London by just two points at home) because it was the last game and there was nothing to play for." Tweet

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