Still the coach’s coach: Liam Moggan on supporting Ireland’s mavericks

Liam Moggan chuckles at one point as we chat away about athletics and some of its seemingly intractable issues, at the Pillo Hotel just outside Ashbourne in Meath. 

We could, he says, be here all day, and the voice inside this column’s head thinks, ‘well, that wouldn’t be the worst thing in the world’.

Kieran Shannon did a piece with Moggan for this newspaper three years ago under a headline calling him “the coach’s coach”. He has worked with everyone from Ken Doherty to the Kerry footballers, Brian Kerr, and show-jumping’s Gerry Mullins. An hour in his company spills over in all directions. There are no boundaries to his thoughts and imagination.