Everywhere he looks they’re there, just as everywhere a Clare person looks they’ll invariably see someone from Limerick and be reminded of the current hurling hierarchy

The signs from the game's past, of a Clare upset win, are positive.

Spectators realise the competitiveness or even integrity of the competition has been diluted.

For the second consecutive Sunday, Tipperary will be outnumbered in the stands and terraces of their own ground.

It hasn’t been lost on America or the world that in recent years that for a good while there the future of the NBA appeared to be international.

It’s an outstanding memory of my sporting career to have been involved in such an epic match. And nothing can take that away. Just dammit, it’s unfortunate we didn’t win it while we were at it.”

Ahead of the latest renewal of Tipperary v Cork in Thurles this weekend, we raid the archive for this in-depth interview by Kieran Shannon with a Premier County legend.

Not since the 2019 Dublin-Kerry All Ireland final replay has there has been as a better standard of first-half long-range point-scoring from two teams.

With McGuinness, there is no standing still or two steps forward, one-and-a-half steps back, one step forward again. He only knows and does quantum leaps.

Cusack Park got both a sizeable Clare crowd and a stirring Clare performance.