Michael Cleary: We almost felt we were playing for two All-Irelands

Mick Gill is the only player to win two senior hurling All-Irelands in the same year, Civil War delaying his Galway 1923 glory until it had company in his 1924 medal with Dublin.

Michael Cleary would nearly put himself and his Tipperary teammates of 1991 in that bracket.

“We’d beaten Antrim in ‘89, our first All-Ireland in 18 years. But with all due respect to Antrim, we never got credit for that. Whether we deserved it or not is a matter of opinion. But it was almost as if we were searching for credibility,” Cleary says, in his shop in Nenagh.