Mayo's Keith Higgins says it was nice to come away from Killarney with both points on Sunday.

The Connacht champions opened their Division One programme with a fantastic victory over All-Ireland champions Kerry and the veteran defender is hopeful that the win will provide them with momentum going into this weekend's clash with Tyrone:

"I suppose it's just the league but it's nice to get two points and come down here and get the league up and running," the Ballyhaunis clubman says in The Irish Times.

"You take into account how long they're back and how much they've done but coming down here we were going to concentrate on ourselves and it was nice to get two points in our first proper game of the year.

"It took us a while to settle, really. We were under pressure for the first 10 or 15 minutes but once we settled down and started moving the ball a bit quicker we got some dividends up front. We got the goal at a difficult time for us. At the start of the second half, they probably got on top of us in midfield for a while but teams are in different places conditioning-wise at this time of year.

"You're not focusing on the fact that Kerry are only back. You're not focusing on two points there but it is nice to get the win at that stage and maybe get a bit of momentum for next week and then you've a couple of weeks' break where you can get a bit of work done and then you're right back in March."

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