Sean Carey seeks ‘buzz’ of winning All-Ireland

Mayo selector Sean Carey admits his involvement with the county panel will only be truly enjoyable if the team win an All-Ireland title and break the duck to Mayo’s last honour in 1951.

A former county minor and U21 team-mate of manager Stephen Rochford, the Kiltane man doesn’t deny he’s savouring the role but is hoping to make it count to get the most out of the experience.

“Is it enjoyable? Yeah, it would be. It would be something that’s enjoyable but you would be busy. I’d be the type of person that wants to win, basically. It’ll be enjoyable if that’s accomplished but the taking part, it’s enjoyable but there has to be something at the end of it too. That’s the way I would be anyway. You have to try and compete anyway and that’s what I’d get the buzz from, achieving something or trying to be part of something that is successful.” Carey had been playing senior club football a year before Rochford made the call to him at the end of last season to come on board as part of his proposed management team. “I had kind of stopped playing because club football in Mayo is quite competitive and even the preparation levels of that for someone who’s 38 or 39, it’s not really conducive to that.