When Kinsale Community School closed its doors on Thursday, March 12, Cork footballer Tom Clancy did not expect to find himself back in his engineering classroom as early as the first week of April.

LET’S START in Ger Doyle’s office. Busy place, even with the phone off the hook. The mobile still rings and there are Leinster Open Championships coming up, piles of paperwork sitting across the desk, the OCI want to organise a meeting this weekend, change the dates of a planned trip to Athens, more headaches and there are still kids to be coached in New Ross, still seconds to be clipped off times.