Jarlath Jones buckled his seat belt and never looked back on his thrill-a-minute top-flight breakthrough.
The Drogheda United defender - studying history and religion at DCU - is living the dream having gone from supporter in the stands, to performer on the pitch.
From nearby Monasterboice, he went to Drogheda games as a kid before joining Dundalk’s underage set-up as a player and then Shelbourne’s U19s.