Galway manager Padraic Joyce was offering no excuses after his side’s narrow defeat to Armagh in Carrick-on-Shannon.

It meant that the Tribesmen were the only one of the four provincial champions not to qualify directly for the All-Ireland SFC quarter-finals, and will instead play a preliminary quarter-final next weekend.

"Hats off to Armagh. I think they controlled the game better in the second half than what we did. Our turnovers killed us, gave Armagh energy and fed into their gameplan,” Joyce said in an interview with RTÉ.

"Disappointed from our end but we'll live to fight another day. It's a setback for us, but the good thing is we only have five or six days to lick our wounds and come back.

"We wanted to qualify directly, of course we did, and have the week off and work on a few things. We didn't get through it and we always knew that was going to be a chance. It doesn't matter about other results. We'd a chance to get a result in this game and we didn't get it."

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