We’ll watch in the hope of spotting a weakness in Dublin’s game

Jack McCaffrey is a hell of a fella. Just as all of us in the football world are consumed by the thought of the Dubs bursting forth into the province of Leinster tomorrow, McCaffrey will be in the departure lounge of Dublin airport awaiting his flight to Zambia.

When he spoke with us about his impending 10-week trip on an Saol ó Dheas on Raidió na Gaeltachta during the week you got the sense of a man who has it all figured out.

He said that having emerged on the Dublin senior scene at the age of 18, he was anxious at the age of 22 to experience a normal summer before the demands of a career in medicine and inter-county football push him down a certain path for the best part of a decade.