Check out these goggles Kildare are using to make their players better footballers

“We're always looking for those marginal gains,” said Cian O’Neill.

Kildare are working their way back to the top, with back-to-back League promotions and a first Leinster final appearance since 2009 to their name, writes Stephen Barry.

Led by manager Cian O’Neill, the Head of the Sport Studies Department at Cork IT, Kildare are at the cutting edge of using scientific methods to help achieve on-field success.