David O'Connor insists Fulham Irish have kept their focus, despite not having played a competitive game in three months.

The London champions will face a hotly-fancied Corofin in their rearranged All-Ireland club SFC quarter-final on Sunday after the original fixture was postponed on December 10 due to a snow-covered pitch in Ruislip.

"It has been a long wait, certainly at a testing time of the year. It has been six weeks since the fixture was postponed and three months since our last competitive game," the ex-Leitrim player said in an interview with RTÉ Radio's Morning Ireland programme.

"It's not ideal, but despite that the commitment levels haven't dropped in any way and that's a great credit to management and the group of players.

"Naturally we all go home to Ireland and disperse throughout the country. Collective trainings are quite difficult over the Christmas period, but we trust our players to look after themselves and they have come back in good condition."

He added: "We are hosting a superpower club, renowned for playing very good football here in London this weekend and we're just looking forward to the test and seeing where we stand up against that.

"We're in bonus territory. We are looking forward to the challenge which we feel we deserve."

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