Legendary Meath manager Sean Boylan has spoken about his battle with and recovery from cancer.

The four-time All-Ireland winning boss appeared on The Late Late Show last night along with rugby great Tony Ward and former RTE newscaster Michael Murphy to discuss their experiences of the disease. Boylan was successfully treated for prostate cancer which he was diagnosed with in 2009 following a check-up for what he thought was a pulled muscle, only to be diagnosed with a second bout of the disease three years ago.

"Do you remember the 'Big Snow of 2010? Well I'm at Midnight Mass, it's minus seven (degrees), I'm in my short sleeves and I'm totally menopausal. The perspiration is rolling off me and it was the most extraordinary experience of my life," the popular Dunboyne herbalist recalled. 

"From the very first (injection), 'I don't like this, I don't like the effect it has on me.' I could feel a change in my personality. I was short, I was snappy, things that normally wouldn't effect me at all. I told Tina (his wife) and the kids 'don't mind me.'"

He added: "That understanding of how lucky I was, how important it is, no matter who you are, that you go for a check-up."

Boylan admitted to feeling sorry for himself after his initial diagnosis.

"Why did it attack me? In the early days, I'd wake up at three or four o'clock in the morning. I'd go outside and I'd walk around. I live in a house that's in the middle of a field and it was like being overwhelmed. I'd think 'mother of God, do the others need this imposed upon them?'"

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