Paudie O’Brien says Davy Fitzgerald raised bar for all at Limerick IT

Anthony Daly wrote in these pages yesterday about how the emblems on their chests can be all that separates Clare and Limerick, but there are an increasing number of occasions when even their jerseys are spun from the same wool.

Paudie O’Brien knows all about that having shared many a dressing-room with men from the Banner in college.

His is a career that has been shaped in no small way by Clare folk.