Longford's Paddy Collum has 'no fears' ahead of Sunday's Leinster SFC quarter-final against Dublin.

The netminder is all set for a busy afternoon but he knows what's required to pull off an upset against a team in sky blue.

Two years ago he was on the Longford team that memorably dumped a hotly-fancied Dublin side out of the Leinster under 21 running.

"I was in college in Dublin at the time and a few of us just tipped down to Parnell Park the week before to watch them play Carlow," he recalled to The Irish Daily Mirror.

"But we still went up full of confidence, it was our team, after all, that had won the Leinster minor in 2010.

"We were fairly confident of turning them over and just the way that it happened on a wet evening - they got a goal earlier on but we stuck at it and we dug deep. We were there or thereabouts at the end and won by a point."

As regards this weekend's senior assignment: "I have no fears going up to play Dublin at all. It doesn't dawn on me. In 2010 Kildare and Dublin played three times in the minor and Kildare came down here to play us and they were already talking about All-Irelands never mind Leinster.

"Our manager said goals win games and we put put the ball in there enough times to beat them that day. Then the following year in the under-21, we beat the Meath team that were going for Leinster in under-21 since they won it in minor.

"We have always been able to provide a bit of a shock anyway. We haven't just finished Leinster with a win in the end."

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