To beat Tyrone would transform the career of Down’s Peter Turley

Duty calls and doesn’t Peter Turley know it. First introduced to the Down set-up by Ross Carr in 2008, the midfielder played up until 2009, before work with the Northern Ireland Fire and Rescue Service meant he had to quit.

“Because of the way the shift pattern works, I couldn’t really go,” he explains. “I took two years out, I didn’t go to the trials or anything. It was bloody 2010 (Down finished All-Ireland runners-up), the year you’re mad to get into the team. I wasn’t there 2010 or 2011, then I got called back into the squad.

An exception couldn’t be made for Turley, not when allowances weren’t afforded to other colleagues in their sporting pursuits, but since 2012, a superior has looked favourably on his inter-county career.