Galway's Matthew Tierney ready for 'do-or-die' decider with Mayo

Defeat to Mayo in Salthill on Sunday will mean Galway become the first ever provincial winners to be knocked out of the championship before the last eight stage.

DO-OR-DIE: Matthew Tierney of Galway poses for a portrait with the Sam Maguire cup. Photo by Brendan Moran/Sportsfile

The youngest of the provincial winning representatives by three years at yesterday’s All-Ireland senior football championship launch in Croke Park, 22-year-old Matthew Tierney was also the most hesitant.

While Cormac Costello and Gavin White are currently nursing injuries and Conor Glass seems to be a hamster on a wheel as his last three seasons morph into a never-ending one, they have a break this weekend.