Pádraic Joyce 'sickened' by injury suffered by Damien Comer in Galway's win over Derry

Galway manager Pádraic Joyce was highly satisfied with his side's performance in their win over Derry but said he was "sickened" by the injury suffered by Damien Comer, which leaves him doubtful for the remainder of the round robin phase.

The Connacht champions maintained their flawless championship record against Derry with a five-point win in Salthill, second half goals palmed home by Sean Kelly and Céin Darcy sending them on their way to a 2-14 to 0-15 victory.

"Enjoyable to win it, to be honest," Joyce told RTÉ Sport's Adrian Eames after the game.

"It's a good score, 2-14. We had a feeling that Derry were going to go defensive and probably play a little bit of that Tyrone-style football. "But our lads coped with it really well and came to grips with it very quickly which was great.

"Once we got 8-6 up at half-time, I felt we were in a good spot.

"The key moment of the game was the kickout we turned over and forced the goal. Got a good advantage from the referee, which is the way advantage should be played. And pushed on from there. It was good."

One of the game's pivotal moments occurred after 20 minutes, when Gareth McKinless was shown a straight red for stamping on the prone ankle of Comer after a free had been awarded.

While Galway exploited the extra man to good effect in the second half, they did so without Comer, who had to hobble off the pitch shortly after half-time.

The Galway manager was irate at the manner of his star attacker's injury and sounded a relatively gloomy note about his prognosis in the coming weeks.

"It's very hard to comprehend that a man would deliberately go out and try to hurt a fella," Joyce sighed.

"I'm just sickened that that has happened to Damien. But look, nothing we can do about it.

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