Galway's footballers have received a huge boost with All-Star forward Damien Comer returning to their match-day squad for tomorrow's preliminary All-Ireland SFC quarter-final clash against ...

Damien Comer speaks after the game "We put pressure on ourselves to get the three in a row. There was a lot of talk about draws and where you would be but we wanted to win today against our arch ...

Even without Shane Walsh and Damien Comer, Galway could beat Mayo. It will be claimed that their ambitions are furthered by doing so, a testament to their depth, which would be fair enough.

The loss of Damien Comer to a hamstring injury at halftime did damage Galway’s attacking threat but Joyce insisted, “The injury that took Damien off the pitch was not the winning or losing of ...

The Galway bench, including manager Pádraic Joyce, coach Cian O'Neill, left, and replaced players Damien Comer, second from right, and John Maher, right, during the All-Ireland SFC round 1 match ...

Galway already had three Connacht titles. If they hadn’t won, they’d still have the likes of John Maher as well as Shane Walsh and Damien Comer to come back in the coming weeks.

Shane Walsh and Damien Comer are absent from the matchday squad. Pádraic Joyce has stuck with the same starting 15 players that defeated Roscommon 1-24 to 0-18 in last month’s semi-final.