After a grueling All-Ireland club semi-final between Moorefield and Corofin, this year's Electric Ireland Sigerson Cup final provided the necessary solution.
So thought Corofin and NUIG man Kieran Molloy anyway.
BREAKING - Kieran Molloy fresh from @AIB_GAA club semi win with @CorofinGAA is Dublin bound in Garda Car to try and feature with @nuigalwaysport in @ElectricIreland Sigerson Final v @ucdgaa #thetoughest @HigherEdGAA #gaa
— Cóilín Duffy (@coilinduffy) February 17, 2018
Fresh from reaching an All-Ireland club final with his club, Molloy was whisked from Tullamore to Santry and, sure enough, made his entry into this year's Sigerson Cup final a minutes into the second-half; not that everyone was hoping he'd make it.
Traffic is shocking on M50 tell him they'll never make it
— UCD GAA Club (@UCDGAA) February 17, 2018
With even the weather in Dublin falling in the favour of UCD and NUIG, Molloy was not to make it two from two however.
UCD are this year's Electric Ireland Sigerson Cup winners, seeing out an incredibly competitive final with a 1-13 to 2-09 scoreline.
Prior to the final, so much was expected of UCD and Dublin's Con O'Callaghan on one side, and the NUIG and Galway man Damien Comer on the other.
Yet, it is unquestionably with O'Callaghan's UCD teammate and Monaghan man Conor McCarthy that stole the show this afternoon.
First making his presence felt as NUIG appeared destined to extend an early first-half lead, McCarthy snatched an all-important goal to reel NUIG in. From that moment onward, it was rare to find any UCD attack that didn't carry with it some influence of McCarthy's industry.
Conor McCarthy is top class, beautiful left peg!! #SigersonCup
— Colm Doyle (@colmdoyle88) February 17, 2018
Conor McCarthy 🔥🔥 #Sigerson18
— Gerry Winters (@WintersGerry) February 17, 2018
Conor McCarthy running the show for UCD #SigersonCup
— Tony Forde (@TonyForde) February 17, 2018
For NUIG's Damien Comer, he will look back on some snatched chances and wonder whether he could have done a little better in that first half.
Looking an absolute class apart at times, the player who is giving fans of Galway football legitimate cause for excitement became a more peripheral figure as the game progressed however.
As both sides reached the half-way point, Comer and NUIG would have been disappointed that parity was all they had to show for it; NUIG scoring 0-08 to UCD's 1-05
The second half will be as much remembered for the missed chances as those that were taken. Of Comer's most obvious contemporary in blue, Con O'Callaghan's influence on the game was limited.
In a half-forward line with Liam Casey of Tipperary and McCarthy, O'Callaghan was arguably the least imposing of the three throughout; Casey settling the nerves with a well-taken point only a minute into the second-half.
Yet, after NUIG had got their second goal of the day through a well-worked move that Adam Gallagher of Mayo finished expertly, O'Callaghan hit a stunning point for UCD to calm the nerves.
NUIG's first goal of the afternoon had come only a few moments earlier, Séan Kelly of Galway taking advantage of a lapse in the UCD defence - it was one of very few.
In their all-Kerry midfield pairing of Barry O'Sullivan and Jack Barry, UCD had a ferocious pairing that underwrote UCD's frenetic attempts at halting any NUIG player a decent amount of time on the ball depended upon.
Comer's drop off in influence could as well be explained by the general drop off in service that the NUIG forwards were allowed.
Frustrating NUIG's efforts at making their way back into a game that was turning in UCD's favour, if not for the frivolous free-taking of Evan O'Carroll, looking half Rambo/half Terry Butcher in his plastered head, UCD would have been well on their way to establishing a more comfortable second-half lead.
Yet, it would go right down to the last moments. On the stroke of the hour, UCD got their final score of the game through that man again Casey, and, although NUIG rallied, they never manufactured another scoring opportunity.
Although either side looked good enough to lay claim to this year's Electric Ireland Sigerson Cup, for the second time in three years, it is with UCD that the trophy rests for 2018.
