Seevers relishing Sligo chance to shine on big stage

AT THE start of this season Paul Seevers applied the brakes and ground his hurling career to a halt.

He had lived the life of a Sligo hurler for 20 years, an existence largely carried out in the shadows of the GAA world and with scant success to show for it.

He had other things on his mind, there was a burgeoning insurance business at home in Tubbercurry to tend to and a house that he was in the process of building. That was it, at 38 years of age, his days as an intercounty hurler were done.