Brendan Maher fluffs lines but joins greats in Stapleton’s

Tipperary captain Brendan Maher already regrets his All-Ireland winning acceptance speech after forgetting to thank Michael Ryan and the management team.

Maher wrote down a few words after the semi-final win over Galway – “got it out of the head” – but in the delirium of the moment omitted words of praise for the sideline men.

“It’s unbelievable, the stuff you dream of. In the moment you don’t know what to think, you’re all over the place, and I forgot to mention Mick Ryan and the management in the speech. I had him first on the list. I saw the names and said I’d come back to it but I just forgot. You don’t know what you’re at! .”