Louth captain Paddy Keenan accepts that the Wee County are in for a searching examination in Omagh on Saturday night.

After losing heavily to Kildare in Leinster, Aidan O'Rourke's charges have been handed a nightmare Round One Qualifier draw - away to Tyrone:

"They have been among the top three or four teams in the country for over ten years now, so it's going to be a big ask for us," the St Patricks clubman said in The Drogheda Independent.

"It will possibly be another step up from the Kildare game, so we know we're going to have to play a lot better than we did the last day to be even in the game.

"People are wrongly writing Tyrone off after the Monaghan game and they could easily have snuck it, as badly and all as people said they played.

"There was a serious pace to that game, higher than we would have played at this year, so we have a big task ahead of us.

"They still have good forwards, serious pace coming out of defence and the old experienced heads like Cavanagh that have won All-Irelands, All Stars and Player of the Years, so it will be no easy task." Tweet

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