Versatile Macauley happy in roving role for Dubs

Michael Darragh Macauley shuffles lazily into Dublin’s DCU training HQ with his Michael Jackson t-shirt, adidas boot runners, impossibly baggy trousers and the promise of good copy trotting along obediently in his wake.

If he isn’t almost choking on a piece of chicken, crashing his bike or running out of petrol on the M50 – as he did on Wednesday on his way to a team meeting – he is tearing it up on the pitch when that couldn’t-give-a-damn demeanour morphs into one of an Action Man.

He was at it again two weeks ago, buzzing around enemy territory as Dublin downed Meath to claim a seventh Leinster title in eight years, undaunted by his departure from midfield and into a 14 jersey that belied his actual role in the half-forward line.