Séamus Hayes keeps rolling back the clock for Carbery Rangers

Seamus Hayes of Carberry Rangers: “Twenty-plus years playing, it doesn't even need saying that I wouldn't be doing it unless I absolutely loved it. That's the bottom lime.” Picture: Eóin Noonan/Sportsfile

At 37 years young, you’d have thought Séamus Hayes could ill afford a lost season.

Part of the Carbery Rangers furniture since 1999, an abandoned GAA season - which was the strongest of possibilities at the height of lockdown in late April - would have taken precious time from a playing career that surely can’t have many more chapters left to run.