Keith Higgins is 'some operator' according to his Mayo hurling team-mate Eoghan Collins.

The All-Star football defender is currently in London on a training camp with the footballers but he's also expected to feature prominently in this Saturday's Nicky Rackard Cup final against Armagh in Croke Park.

Collins, who is also a Ballyhaunis club-mate of the dual star, highlighted his importance to the county's hurling cause.

"They're over in London now so if they come home unscathed we'll have him. That's the plan.

"He always said it was his first love, his father's from Galway and is the club manager at home for the last two or three years.

"Ah, he's class. It just comes to him so easy," the 22-year-old, a first cousin of Clare dual star Podge, added when speaking to The Irish Independent.

"He could be a couple of weeks, a couple of months out of hurling and he'd pick up a hurl and within three or four days he'd be the most skilful man on the pitch.

"He'd just get it back in the click of a finger. You could throw him in anywhere, the leadership as well, he's been here, done it on a lot bigger stages, he says a few words and everyone listens.

"You take it all in and just try and go out and emulate it really. You'd have been looking up to him having played for Mayo for the last 10 years so yeah he's some operator. When he has the love of it and he comes back in I'm sure the way he is the managers can't really say no to him."

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