Clancy ready to 'just deal with' whatever is thrown Cork City's way

Much of the playing surfaces afforded to League of Ireland clubs will have been tested to the max on occasion over the decades. 

Yet this season - which kicked off back in February, and will run through the summer and well into the autumn - has so far been a washout, and as a result, has caused those surfaces to be stretched to their very limits.

The Irish winter has dragged on into the spring and we now find ourselves without First Division or Women's National League football at Turner's Cross "indefinitely" to facilitate a "period of extensive works". 

For Cork City men's manager Tim Clancy, it is a storm they have to ride through and hope that the issue is resolved in a timely fashion. 

His table-topping side travel to third-placed UCD on Friday night and could yet be tasked with reversed fixtures at Longford Town and Finn Harps in the following weeks, games due to be played at Turner's Cross until the intervention of the Munster Football Association on Monday evening. 

"I think if we were in a different position in the league, I think you could possibly use it as an excuse, as a distraction." Clancy told the Irish Examiner. "Where we are, we're in a really good place at the minute. 

"The atmosphere around the group is very good and the players have really stepped up, they've been exceptional...

"At the minute, the mood that I sense from them is, wherever they are, they expect to be able to go and perform and to be able to get a win in that situation. 

"If it is a case where we play elsewhere, with reverse fixture or whatever else - I'm not sure what the situation is - we'll just deal with it."

If the fixtures are reversed, one would take place at Harps' home, Finn Park, where a recent floodlight issue has meant that