A teenager who missed seven weeks of his Leaving Certificate school year, in a bid to save his flood-hit home during last year’s devastating winter storms, has ambitions to develop a flood defence plan for his community after qualifying for an engineering course.

IRELAND’S midfield dynamo, Mark Kinsella, will have one major question on his lips when Ireland step off their plane at Dublin Airport on Sunday, ideally with a European Championship win over Russia in Moscow already achieved: “Who is winning the hurling final?”