The men tasked with keeping Mayo on green and red alert

What’s the toughest job in an inter-county backroom team right now? Strength and conditioning coach? Statistician? Logistics manager? They all have their claim, which is why running the medical team is a position few people would throw in there.

The perception is a doctor runs on when someone picks up an injury. Maybe the physio gives a player a rub before and after a match. Simple?

Dr Séan Moffatt and his cousin Liam took on the role for James Horan in his first year with the Mayo team and have been with him every step of the way. At the time, Séan had been the Mayo minors and U21s doctor in previous seasons and was just after building the Ballina Medical Centre. Liam, a chartered physio and athletic trainer, was running the centre’s newly-formed Mayo Sports Clinic.