Banner boy Brendan’s voyage to the big time

There’s some outstanding young talent now in the county.

They just have to be given time. We ask that from the county, allow this team to build like the 1995 team that was built from the ashes of 1993 and 1994. Tipperary are a formidable team now, we’re up against it, but any team can be beaten on any day. If you look back over the years, Clare play best when we’re underdogs. Hopefully we can use that to our advantage.”

FIRST of all, let’s get the name straight. He can whistle, he can carry a tune, but he’s not a bugler as in ‘bue-gler’, he doesn’t play reveille every morning or The Last Post every evening, the notes drifting across Lough Derg from his home in Mountshannon to Puckaun and Coolbaun in Tipperary.