Ray Cosgrove unhappy to play waiting game between matches

Ray Cosgrove is a busy man, though not as busy as he should be.

It’s almost two years since he took a phone call from Johnny Magee. They’d shared many a Dublin dressing-room so Cosgrove agreed to Magee’s request to lend a join his new coaching ticket with the Wicklow footballers even though he was doing something similar with Kilmacud Crokes.

More than two years on and he’s still getting a buzz on those Tuesday and Thursday evenings when he sits into his car in the capital and points it southwards, like thousands of other commuters, towards the Garden County.