Yesterday we attended a football match that was far from the glamour of the Aviva Stadium and Kilian Mbappé, or the Etihad Stadium and Erling Haaland.

It was part of the Bohemian FC outreach programme for inmates at Mountjoy Prison and while it was not permitted to capture the moment on film it was a game that will live long in the memory.

Bohs have had a flying start to the season and in the rarefied world of elite football, bringing along members of the team for a pretty intense kickabout on the pock-marked concrete pitch that is the exercise yard off C wing would not be on the agenda.

There are not many training sessions where there is a risk of the ball being punctured on the barbed wire that rings the high lights on the higher walls on each side.

Not many where the tunnel going out on the pitch is actually a corridor of Victorian Prison cells that look exactly as you imagine.

But Bohs is different and when the chance arose manager Declan Devine was only too happy to play along and also serve as referee for the mix-and-match five-a-side games that took place under the security netting.

Keith Buckley, Declan McDaid and Dean Williams were among the players wearing the black and red of the club, alongside James Talbot and Luke Dennison who both, like all goalkeepers, relished the prospect of getting stuck in in the middle of the ‘park’.

There was a game for all the prisoners who wanted to play and plenty more watching from the sidelines or glancing up from their gym routines and boxing sparring.

We can’t name the player whose goals and smart movement earned him a Bohs jersey as the Player of the Tournament, for security reasons, but in another life he could have been lining out for a League of Ireland club rather than to go back to his cell.

The work that the club does in helping prisoners to find their feet as part of their rehabilitation takes place away from the cameras and in the shadows of polite society.

It is brought to life by Tommy Hynes, a man whose life experience should have him with his feet up but instead whose infectious enthusiasm and willingness to treat everyone in a positive manner is worth a million Premier League season tickets.

It is appreciated by the wardens who themselves put energy and effort into creating opportunities for people to atone for what they have done but retain their dignity on the road back.

It is appreciated by the prisoners who for an hour yesterday could escape their own heads and the challenges they face for the crimes they have committed.

Did you know there was an occasional park run that takes place around a makeshift circuit on occasional Saturday mornings?

This was an afternoon out of the ordinary and one that will live long in the memory

Watch out in the coming days for a very special event taking place to celebrate our Annual Sport for Social Good Report, in partnership with Allianz