Derry boss Rory Gallagher offered no excuses and said his side were "beaten by a better team" in yesterday's All-Ireland SFC semi-final versus Galway at Croke Park.

Damien Comer scored two second-half goals as the Tribesmen triumphed 2-8 to 1-6 against the Ulster champions, who, after a promising start, struggled to find anything like their best form.

"I think we were beaten by a better team, there's no doubt about that," Gallagher told RTÉ Sport afterwards.

"I think the way the game panned out we were very good and controlled an awful lot in the first 18 or 20 minutes or whatever it was.

"We would liked to have been ahead more than we were and were disappointed to be level at half-time albeit Galway had turned the direction of the game and were starting to get the measure of us.

"But disappointed that we left chances behind us under not that much pressure but also with the amount of ball we had in the first half that we didn't put up more of a score."

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