The All star nominee list has been unveiled and it is no surprise that Davy Fitzgerald's side have been rewarded for their astonishing 2013 performance.

Dublin GAA chairman Andy Kettle has confirmed the county board’s spending on intercounty teams will hit close to the €2m mark again this year.

Clare manager Davy Fitzgerald lifted the lid on his personal life in an interview with RTÉ Radio yesterday

Ger Loughnane has expressed hope All-Ireland champions Clare don’t disappear “off the map” as neighbours Tipperary did following their 2010 success.

Back-to-back All-Ireland Under-21 Hurling champions Clare lead the way with 14 nominations for the inaugural Bord Gáis Energy Team of the Year Award ceremony which will be televised live on TG4 on Saturday week (October 12) at 8.30pm.

There was no sports psychologist present, no wisdom imparted from management, instead the Clare hurling panel played a game of cards to settle the pre-match nerves on Saturday morning.

Cork’s inspirational midfielder Juliet Murphy has indicated that last Sunday’s TG4 All-Ireland Ladies SFC final victory over Monaghan was her last game for the Rebels.

Former Cork star Wayne Sherlock believes that winning the Munster championship in 2014 would represent an improvement on this year’s showing for the county.

Munster Council chairman Robert Frost has promised to work closely with his native Clare to alleviate the Banner County’s club fixtures crisis.

Clare manager Davy Fitzgerald has revealed how a three-hour meeting with the players in his sitting room, during which they had MiWadi orange and biscuits, got the Banner's Championship campaign back on track.

It began with a phone call 11 months ago. Louis Mulqueen got in touch with Shane O’Donnell’s father looking for his son’s number.

Kieran Kingston was looking for positives after the All-Ireland final. The Cork selector didn’t begrudge Clare (“the better team”) their win, but he still regretted the might-have-beens.

He might have been one of the best soccer players in the world, but there were never any airs and graces about Roy Keane, and nor were there on Saturday when he travelled to support the Cork hurlers.

We should have known it was Clare’s year really. A once-in-a-generation heatwave. Dublin winning the football. All we’re short is a spat about Blur and Oasis and we might as well be in 1995 all over again.

Jimmy Barry-Murphy was his usual composed self at the final whistle in Croke Park.

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The Banner roared last night as 30,000 supporters turned out in Ennis to give a tumultuous welcome to the victorious All-Ireland senior hurlers with the Liam MacCarthy Cup.

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On a dank, grey evening, when even the rain couldn’t fall with any gusto, hundreds of diehard Cork fans slipped on their beloved red jerseys again and headed for the city centre to cheer on the boys for one last time this year.

Yesterday morning in Dublin’s Clyde Court Hotel, Davy Fitzgerald sat down with a handful of journalists to discuss Clare’s triumph. So frank and revealing were his words over those 18 minutes or so, we’ve run the transcript of the interview almost in its entirety.

Upwards of 30,000 people descended on Ennis tonight for the homecoming of the Clare Senior and Under 21 All-Ireland-winning teams.

Brendan Bugler showed off his accordion-playing skills in the Clare dressing room as they celebrated their outstanding All-Ireland SHC triumph over Cork last night.

Cork 1-10 Monaghan 1-9

Clare's All-Ireland winning manager Davy Fitzgerald has spoken about the brains behind the game-plan which ultimately led to the Banner men lifting the Liam MacCarthy Cup yesterday.

Cavan 1-14 Tipperary 1-12

Clare Senior Hurlers visited Crumlin Children's Hospital this morning with the Liam MacCarthy Cup ahead of their Homecoming celebrations in Ennis tonight.

Offaly 2-11 Wexford 0-12

A number of the country's leading sports stars took to social media to praise the excellence, excitement and sheer spectacle served up by Clare and Cork in yesterday's All-Ireland SHC final replay.

Cork manager Jimmy Barry-Murphy was remaining positive as he reflected on his side's All-Ireland SHC final replay loss to Clare in what was a fittingly high quality and high octane game to conclude the 2013 Championship.

If Carlsberg did All-Ireland hurling finals it would be hard for them to top yesterday's experience for Shane O'Donnell, the Clare teenager who scored 3-3 in the Banner men's final replay win over Cork.

Local Authorities in Clare will host a joint homecoming event for the Clare Senior and Under 21 hurlers tomorrow after winning their All-Ireland titles.

Clare 5-16 Cork 3-16

This evening's All-Ireland Senior Hurling Final replay will shortly be throwing in at Croke Park, with Cork and Clare preparing to clash again three weeks after their thrilling draw the first time out.

There was another instance of Premier League footballers' admiration for Gaelic Games earlier today when Arsenal's Lukas Podolski and Santi Cazorla showed their support for Clare ahead of the All-Ireland SHC final replay against Cork.

Yes, that is Lukas Podolski and Santi Cazorla, apparently in the Arsenal dressing room.

CLARE's hat-trick hero Shane O'Donnell joked he will return to UCC over the next few days to rub it into the faces of his Cork college mates.

Win or lose, both Cork and Clare are planning big homecoming bashes after the two counties do battle again today in the replay of the All-Ireland hurling final.

At the start of the hurling season, this reporter met Conor O’Sullivan for a chat and the talk turned to DVDs he’d seen (the Sars man thought Argo a better flick than Skyfall, for instance).

JIMMY Barry-Murphy was his usual composed self at the final whistle in Croke Park tonight.

Clare 5-16 Cork 3-16

GAA chiefs are gleefully rubbing their hands in anticipation of a fourth 80,000-plus Croke Park September sell-out for today’s All-Ireland hurling final replay.

It was just over two hours before throw-in that Davy Fitzgerald broke it to Clare's three goal hero Shane O'Donnell he was starting.