Tomás Tierney: The last man to have played for both Galway and Mayo

Tierney won seven Connacht SFC medals, five with his native Galway and two with Mayo. He would have preferred not to have had to switch but does not regret his decision

Tomás Tierney is the last man to have played senior football for both Galway and Mayo. ©INPHO/Tommy Dickson

Given the choice, Tomás Tierney would have preferred to stay pulling on the maroon shirt, would have preferred not to have had to leave his native Milltown.

Tierney is part of a small and unique club. It’s a club, if we’re being honest, that he’s likely the last entrant into - a point of view backed up by the fact that it was all of 31 years ago when he joined and nobody has followed him since.