A good team but Johnny Glynn can count himself unlucky to lose out

A fleece of us in Clare got nominated for All Stars in 1998 and the county board obligingly decided to fly us up on the Friday and back down on the Saturday.

Thu, 05 Nov, 2015 - 00:00

Anthony Daly

Two‑time All‑Ireland–winning captain and former Dublin and Clare manager, Anthony Daly, is a much-respected pundit and columnist as well as ringmaster in chief on the hugely-popular Dalo’s Hurling Show.

The gesture was partly to make up for the disappointment of losing the All-Ireland semi-final after a second replay and we all jumped at the offer. A gang of us took off, the women with us, before lunchtime. We had landed in the Burlington in no time.

The wives and girlfriends had hair appointments, nail and tanning appointments, booked around Dublin so myself and Ollie Baker decided to repair to the Leeson Lounge for a couple of quiet pints. About half an hour later, this head appears in behind the door — the late Páidí Ó Sé. I swear, I never put down an afternoon of craic like it. PO was telling stories about matches, the guards, some of the stuff he got up to. Myself and Baker were falling around the place laughing.