On top of the routine run-ins and finals, there’s the increasingly regular annual league phase involvement in the Conference League.

For the game’s sake, it’s high time they dispensed with the footwork and kept their limbs firmly intact when asked to account for a mess of their own making.

Next Wednesday’s grilling before an Oireachtas hearing is gearing up to be another public inquisition.

They did succeed in quietening him 15 months ago in a friendly win that ended Hungary’s 14-match unbeaten run, but this is competitive fare.

Anyone who has dealt with Ozhianvuna during his upbringing classify him as a steady sort, impenetrable from the pressure that will inevitably surface.

Sligo Rovers feeling the brunt of refereeing missteps and Troy Parrott in form at right time.

Over half of Uefa’s 55 member nations were represented in last season’s Conference League phase and the League of Ireland is primed for a repeat. Failure by all three contenders would be simply inexcusable.

Of all the influences on Barry-Murphy — David Moyes who signed him from Cork City to Pep — the imperative of winning imparted by his legendary father Jimmy constitutes the relevant advice in this project.

If Ireland are still competitive for the concluding window in November, something they’ve been devoid of since 2019, then there’s every chance he’ll celebrate more than two anniversaries.

Since Cork last won the men’s All-Ireland hurling crown in September 2005, Cork City’s footballers lifted the both national trophies, league and Cup, twice apiece.