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A lot of folk talk about putting their bodies on the line for their teams. Paul Broderick went and did it, time and again, over the course of a decade and more that delivered little in the way of silver or spotlight.

The Tinryland forward was just 18 and a few weeks out from his Leaving Cert when an innocuous elbow during a challenge match with the club seniors in which he was a last-minute draftee left him on the ground and at the foothills of a nightmare.

It was a friend of his, Shane O’Neill, who suggested he be taken to a hospital. O’Neill was an occupational therapist and his medical intuition proved prescient.