Luke Dempsey has seen it all throughout his managerial career, but he acknowledges that it took a global health crisis for club bosses like himself to have any type of regular access to inter-county players. 

As Johnstownbridge manager this year, Dempsey is delighted to have access to the Kildare contingent with the Cribbin brothers, Keith and Paul, as well as Daniel Flynn, available to him as Jack O'Connor's county squad is put on the back burner, but that is a rarity in a normal season.

READ MORE - https://www.independent.ie/sport/gaelic-games/it-should-not-take-a-pandemic-for-clubs-to-come-first-dempsey-39369167.html - Michael Verney, Irish Independent.