For Tullaroan and Kilkenny hurling star Mossy Keoghan, life is good at the moment.
Games coming thick and fast, 2-12 from play in four outings, one of the best hurlers so far in this year's Allianz League, and his side just two points off the top of the table ahead of Tipperary’s visit to Nowlan Park this Sunday.
"Just the competitiveness in Division 1A," he says of the top tier. "Every week there is an unreal match to look forward to. The games are more or less week on week and it’s very enjoyable."
Keoghan, whose father Liam was a defensive linchpin for the Cats during the 1990s, has been on the Kilkenny senior panel since 2017.
He came onto the scene after successful stints with St Kieran’s College and a spell playing minor, under-21 and intermediate for his county.
He was a fine player from the start and showed that in the 2018 Allianz League final when Paudie Maher was dispatched to look after him.
Back then he was known for work rate and a reluctance to take a backward step.
"Well, when I came onto the panel first, I was very raw," he said. "You do have downs and ups but you are learning from mistakes as you go along.
"It is always a long year and there are so many matches that you simply have to get into the next one as fast as you can.
"If you did have a bad week, more than likely you would have another one the following week or two weeks max.
"But looking back, physicality was definitely a huge thing that I needed to work upon when I came in. We had Colin Fennelly, TJ Reid and Walter Walsh, and to try and get up to physical stakes was huge firstly.
"Come the summer, then it was the speed of everything, and coming near the championship it was trying to make no mistakes. In inter-county hurling there are very high standards. It takes a few years to get into the groove and you care constantly trying to improve."
There is no danger of him slacking off or standing back to admire himself, that’s not in the DNA, but his performances over the past 18 months have only shown an upward curve.
While he didn’t get on the scoresheet against Cork, he hit 0-05 against Clare, 0-07 against Galway and hit two goals against Wexord.
There is no doubting that while his productivity and application were always high, his scoring prowess has now increased considerably.
So too has his ability to read a game, scan the field before he receives possession, his ability to get out of tight exchanges and also his knowhow to drop deep, collect the ball and release his fellow attackers with a sweeping delivery.
"Work rate gets you on the team," he says. "But as a forward you are always looking to score and getting into positions to do so.
"It was not one of my main strengths at the very start, but I have been working hard to put a lot of emphasis on getting into scoring positions and the last few weeks it has been working well.
"You have to learn and adapt, put the work rate in and then try to be clever enough to get into the right positions and be a scoring option – that is hugely important.
"And it is something we need to work upon with Kilkenny, we are not hitting high marks in terms of scoring enough in matches."
They hit 0-23 against Clare, 1-19 against Galway, 2-17 against Wexford and 2-16 against Cork, which evens out at around 0-22 per game.
Still, they have the tools to vary their game more than others, with a strong defence, half-forwards who drop deep, but an ability to switch play or go long to the likes of TJ Reid in an instant.
"We are looking to be a little bit more unpredictable," he says. "You don’t want to be a one-trick pony so you try to get the right mix in both styles.
"Sometimes it’s hard not to be direct when you have TJ in the square. There are times when you have to play to your strengths.
"We mix it up a lot but there is still room for improvement," he adds.
