Cillian O'Connor will swap the FBD Connacht League for the Dr McKenna Cup next month.

The Mayo All Star will make his debut in the Ulster pre-season football competition for UUJ - where he studying for a Masters degree in Sports Psychology and Exercise Science - against Monaghan in Clones on January 4.

"Playing in the McKenna Cup will be new for me. It will be good to test myself against some of the best players in Ulster and in a new competition. It will be interesting," O'Connor told the Irish Independent.

"It's good to mix with lads from different counties who have been exposed to different coaches and who have been brought up maybe playing a slightly different way.

"You pick up different ways of defending, different ways of positioning, different strategies, so it's been interesting to learn about them.

"If I can pick up one or two things and improve my game, it's a bonus."

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