Iain Corbett’s football obsession: ‘There were a few dark days’

The Treaty stalwart has called time on his intercounty football career after 14 seasons.

GENERATION GAME: Limerick’s Iain Corbett and his son Dylan dejected after the game Mandatory Credit ©INPHO/James Crombie

The pain was total. Iain Corbett had pulled hamstrings before but this was another level entirely. He was lying across the back seat of his manager’s car, staring at the roof lining, wondering if he would ever play again.

It was in the first half of a 2024 Limerick senior football championship match that the Newcastle West stalwart went down. The eventual diagnosis would show two hamstring tendons ripped off the bone, known as the Paul O’Connell injury in these parts.