‘Teach them how to play, not teach them plays’

Mark Ingle is one of the most familiar faces on the Irish women’s basketball scene, if one of the most hidden figures in assisting Jim Gavin’s Dublin. But football isn’t on his radar this cup finals weekend as his DCU Mercy team bid to stop old friend Mark Scannell’s Glanmire from claiming the five-in-a-row.

There’s a whole generation of basketball people now who only know him as Mr DCU Mercy, just as the wider public may only know him as “that basketball coach helping out the Dubs”.

But there’s no way any chat with someone with as varied and colourful a career in sport as Mark Ingle’s can be reduced to just those two most obvious, recent topics.