Restless fan Jack McCaffrey will be naturally pessimistic

This should have been a difficult week for Jack McCaffrey, the days when it struck him like a freight train exactly what he walked away from.

Dublin are just 70 minutes from becoming back-to-back All-Ireland champions, something they haven’t done in almost 40 years, and the 2015 Player of the Year was certain to be involved.

But if the 22-year-old medical student is internally tortured about his decision to step outside the Dublin bubble for a while this year, it isn’t at all apparent.