Donegal captain Michael Murphy led the tributes to retired team-mate and friend Neil Gallagher yesterday evening.
A persistent back injury has forced the big midfielder to call time on his inter-county career, having made 140 appearances for Donegal since making his debut in December 2003.
Gallagher is a double All-Star who won an All-Ireland and three Ulster SFC titles, while he captained Donegal to the Division 1 League crown in 2007.
Rory Gallagher confirmed at a press conference yesterday that the Glenswilly man retired having suffered a reocurrence of the injury at training last week – and Twitter went into mourning.