Player of the Year awards have also been named for the Joe McDonagh, Christy Ring, Nickey Rackard, and Lory Meagher Cups.

Championship 2019: wonder after wonder. Here’s a few of the highlights from the reel.

A survivor of Waterford’s last All-Ireland win in 1959, Austin Flynn manned the Déise square at a time when his chief responsibility was to ‘protect the goalkeeper from being killed’. His policing was thorough, even when assigned the cases of greats such as Nickey Rackard, Liam Devaney, and Christy Ring, who became a great friend as much as foe.