On Wednesday, the German Football Association confirmed that the Women's Bundesliga would resume on 29 May after weeks of hiatus due to the coronavirus pandemic.
Three Republic of Ireland internationals are currently at German clubs: Diane Caldwell (SC Sand), Claire O'Riordan (MSV Duisburg) and Amber Barrett (FC Koln).
With a return to action just around the corner, Barrett joined RTÉ 2fm's Game On to share her view on the latest development, having resumed training.
"It's been absolutely fantastic to be back," she said, adding that Ireland head coach Vera Pauw had texted her a good luck message.
"We started full team training yesterday, having been in groups for the last two weeks and I think even going from two groups training, no contact, keeping social distancing [and then] going into full contact yesterday was just a dream come true and it was just long awaited."
With the first matches back coming next weekend, the question is if players will have had enough work done on the training ground to be fully match-fit and Barrett admits that will remain unknown until the games kick off.
"Every team has been in the same boat in terms of how much exposure to training they've got so we'll do thing as best we can.
"We'll prepare as best we can and we've eight games in less than five weeks so, of course, it will take its toll on the body but we'll have to manage that as best we can," said the striker, who added that the team and staff are being tested regularly for Covid-19.
Given her role as a forward, the art of goal celebrations in the new reality is one she has kept an eye on as she watched the men's Bundesliga action, which resumed last weekend.
"I was actually quite surprised when I was watching the game and I was wondering why everybody was so calm but I didn't realise at the time that they had to maintain social distancing for the celebrations," she said.
"To me that was a bit of strange one because there was contact in the game and in the wall where they are in close proximity to each other.
"So that will be an interesting one but I'll have to keep [the celebrations] low key then."
One benefit of the enforced time of that she has found is that it has given her more time to learn German, having only moved to the country from the Irish Women's National League in 2019.
But she added that she has not had "any major problems with the language" after putting the effort in over the last couple of months and sensing a "big difference".
