Derry's Padraig McGrogan season over due to ACL injury

Derry's Padraig McGrogan has had his season come to an end as he suffered an ACL injury, just days after the defeat to Donegal.

McGrogan said it was a "freak" injury in training, with the Derry defender set for an operation in June.

A consistent for Derry in the past couple of seasons, McGrogan will be missed as they prepare for the All-Ireland series, with Galway first up in the group.

"I had a fairly bad injury on the Thursday after the Donegal game just in training. It was the ACL so I won't be taking part in much more now for this season. There's no hiding it now, it was done a couple of weeks ago and it just is what it is.

"No operation yet, hopefully the start of June and then it'll be just a case of getting on with the rehab and getting it done as best as I can.

"It was something I’ve done a million times before. I just went to turn inside, and I just knew right away that I’d done something. It was just a freak accident.

"It can happen so easily. You never fear it, but I felt 100pc the whole way through training and it just happened suddenly, it was just a freak thing."

McGrogan said he will stay part of the squad for the summer, as Derry look to overcome their Ulster quarter-final defeat to Donegal.

In a shock defeat, Donegal brought Derry down from the highs of winning Division One, which has lead to the first break Derry have had all year.

"It's been a couple of weeks so plenty of time to digest it. It's just another game, only we lost that one. Watching back the video is painful, but you can see exactly why we lost the game.

"When we start to make these adjustments we just have to hope we learn from what we got wrong and get better from it.

"We were probably just over-aggressive and nearly silly in the end.