Mairead Scanlan hopes everything adds up for a Scariff Ogonnelloe win

Mairead Scanlan is defending the honour – nay, the personality type – of the accountant, laughing at the bad rap number crunchers get for being dour and boring.

The former Clare camogie stalwart has recently just started working closer to home in Ennis, with Inis Environmental, having previously been commuting to Castletroy. The job spec is similar, but she is enthused by ecological thrust of her new employer.

"Everyone has this stereotype," she says with a giggle. "I know, it's hilarious we get such abuse. Well, I’m not like that anyway."

There isn’t time to delve deeper into Scanlan’s one-woman campaign to prove accountants have all the fun, intriguing though one suspects it might be, but the fact that the words 'laughing’ and ‘giggle’ have already been typed is a strong opening gambit for sure.

Things have certainly been adding up on the pitch for a number of years, particularly with Scariff Ogonnelloe, who the 32-year-old captains in the second of the weekend’s AIB All-Ireland Senior Club semi-finals against champions Oulart-The Ballagh at Clonmel Commercials GAA tomorrow at 1.30pm on Sunday.

They are in august company, given that the other three semi-finalists have won the last five titles. In contrast, the Banner representatives were playing in a junior final little over five years ago in November 2016, losing by a point to Kildare side Johnstownbridge in Birr. Coming as it did, three years after the defeat to Myshall of Carlow in another decider, it was a bitter pill to swallow.

But far from causing a disintegration of the team, it heralded a new dawn of achievement and when Scanlan plundered a goal in the fourth minute of injury time to snatch a one-point victory over Tipperary kingpins Drom & Inch in Mallow four weeks