Leitrim captain Sean McWeeney says losing to Galway by eight points was "tough to take".

Despite producing a spirited display at Carrick-on-Shannon on Sunday, Shane Ward's new-look side still went down by eight points - having given as good as they got for long periods.

"It's tough - definitely eight points is tough to take," McWeeney told The Leitrim Observer. "We didn't control it as much as we hoped, we missed opportunities. A couple of scores would have settled us down because we had new lads in there, four or five debutants.

"We had some stats there that we had as many opportunities to score pretty much as they did, which is obviously a positive. But we have to be a little bit more clinical; a little bit more experience would obviously help us.

"That is a highly-rated Galway team, we were within touching distance for a lot of the game. They slowed it up when we were coming out of defence, they fouled, they did the things experienced teams needed to and we'll learn from that."

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