Diarmuid Lyng, Andy Lee and Gavin Cummiskey joined the Saturday Panel on Off the Ball at Electric Picnic.
Wexford's Lyng looked back at his career, how it unfolded and how he would have done things differently and speaking to Ger Gilroy he said: "To be an athlete and to be at the top of your game, it requires a huge amount of energy and a huge amount of focus because if you're focused on it - your energy goes that way. So, it comes through you in a much more natural way.
"Whereas when you finish playing, you have to have a bit of a chat with yourself and see what's going on here. How are these skills that I've learned going to transfer to life. And, there's obviously a very big gap between the two and so, I felt the work I wanted to do now, I don't have that spring of energy so I went off to the west of Ireland and went out into the wildness a little bit more to see if I could drum something up inside of me that's actually going to be of value to the people that I come into contact with.
"That's been disastrous in many ways but fantastic in other ways too," he added.
Wexford's Diarmuid Lyng and Conor Mahon of Offaly. Image: ©INPHO/James Crombie
Asked if he missed being the 'inter-county star', he said: "Definitely part of me does, sure it's lovely. People are so warm with you and they give you so much and they're really with you and want to chat to you and when people want to talk to you - it's just a great thing, female or male!
"And obviously, you feel the benefits of it from the female perspective as well so it was definitely one of the initial draws. People start looking at you a little bit more and start taking more attention and I think for a woman or a man, you're always going to be attracted to talent and enthusiasm and passion so having those things there definitely had a benefit.
"I don't miss what it turned me into something that really wasn't giving me any enjoyment so I knew I had to scale back," he added.
The full discussion can be heard here:
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