Championship Preview: Clare and Limerick? The only differences between us are those little idiosyncrasies, those unique emblems, which distinguish us all as our own separate little tribe in the wider hurling family.

Clare and Limerick? The only differences between us are those little idiosyncrasies, those unique emblems, which distinguish us all as our own separate little tribe in the wider hurling family.

I entered St Flannan’s College as a student for the first time in September 1982. On one of my first mornings traipsing around the corridors, trying to negotiate my way around the labyrinth of a big, new world, a couple of 5th year students stopped me up.

“Are you Martin Daly’s brother?” one of them with blond shocks of hair asked.