“No longer the whipping boys of Munster!”

Nearly a decade as captain of Clare, a spell as manager of the team, many years spent as an analyst and commentator on hurling in print and on television, Anthony Daly has said a few things in his time.

Those seven words, however, spoken in the immediate aftermath of the 1997 Munster senior hurling final win over Tipperary, cup hoisted defiantly in the air, have gone down in Irish sporting history.

Brian O’Meara was togged for Tipp that day but the words passed over his head – he was dealing with his own demons.