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JACK BYRNE is lapping up the sunshine even more than those League of Ireland players who've opted to stay home during the mid-season break.
That's because temperatures in Dubai where and he and girlfriend Hannah Nawara have jetted off to are averaging in the mid-30s.
After enduring a very bumpy start to the season, the Shamrock Rovers playmaker has been instrumental in helping normal service to resume by this juncture.
Having regained top form with four goals and seven assists across twenty Premier Division appearances, he's helped them back to the top of the table.
Not only that, but in the wake of Derry City's slip-up at home to Bohemians they now boast a six-point buffer over their nearest challengers.
After that win over the students, manager Stephen Bradley hailed his three-in-row champions for responding well to a mini-blip where they lost to Drogheda United and Cork City in successive weeks.
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In addition to the win over the Belfield side - who could name only five subs - they'd also secured all three points against both Dundalk and Sligo Rovers.
Bradley said: “We were very good.
“We’d had a tough week with two big games so Friday night was about staying at them levels and not coming off them and we did that.
“We played some good football, at a good tempo, scored some good goals and got the three young boys on the pitch which was important.
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“We’re in a strong position, I always feel it’s about getting this team to the break in a decent position, within touching distance of the top.
"We always felt that and if we are there, second half of the season we get strong, everything we do is geared for peaking in the second half of the season and we have done that in the last few seasons.
“Players need time off, but they will come back it’s about focusing and going back up the levels."