Mickey Harte is adamant that Tyrone won't be taking Limerick's challenge lightly on Sunday.

Ulster SFC preliminary round losers to Donegal six weeks ago, the Red Hands will be expected to get back to winning ways when they welcome the Munster minnows to Healy Park for their first round All-Ireland qualifier. However, the Tyrone manager isn't taking anything for granted.

"This is the All-Ireland series we're in now," he pointed out in the Tyrone Courier.

"There is no other place to be. If you're in the All-Ireland series, then you ought to be excited about that, you ought to be energised about it, and I do believe that our players are.

"Tomas O Se said that they (Kerry) always had to be very mindful of these so-called lower division opponents that they were meeting in the Munster championship, and that they treated them with total respect.

"Now if that happens from a county like Kerry, then it would be foolish for any of us to treat anybody else any differently.

"I know that they're very disappointed at the result in Ballybofey, and I suppose heartened to a degree by the fact that we made a huge improvement between the league game and the championship match.

"But ultimately the result was still one that we lost, and we have to come to terms with that, and we have to build up our own confidence again in our own capability to be in this competition as long as possible."

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