IF a certain beer company did mornings, they could do a lot worse than make their way to Owning Hill, on a frosty but glorious sunny Monday morning, the base of Joseph O’Brien, whose drive and ambition seems limitless.

I’ve been told by journalists who cover other sports just how difficult it is to get access to the big names and when they get it, the conversation can at times, be pretty sanitized. But on Monday, when the press arrived, Joseph told the assembled hacks: “Ask me whatever you want.”