Kieran Shannon: Dr Martin McIntyre aiming to curb the most common ailment in GAA - The hamstring injury

Kieran Shannon sits down with Dr Martin McIntyre to chat about his life in sport, hamstring injuries and prevention, and the capabilities of the modern athlete.

HEALTHY HAMMIES: Mayo's Dr Martin McIntyre testing the hamstrings of Aidan O'Shea.

They may come from what remains technically an amateur sport but last month at a global football medicine conference in London, some research and ground-breaking technology originating from the Mayo medical team, triggered by another instalment in their long-standing rivalry with Dublin, was revealed to impressed delegates from Brazil to Botswana.

Dr Martin McIntyre is one of those hidden figures and servants behind one of the most formidable setups in Irish sport for the past decade.