Listen: Dalo on '95: 'My mother was up in the stand with my brother and said ‘what’s he doing?’ 

 Anthony Daly of Clare during the All-Ireland Senior Hurling Championship Final between Clare and Offaly at Croke Park in Dublin. Photo by Brendan Moran/Sportsfile

Not only was Anthony Daly the Clare captain when the county ended a 81-year wait for an All-Ireland senior hurling title 25 years ago today. Not only did he make one of the great winning speeches from the steps of the Hogan Stand. But ‘Dalo’, to most people’s surprise, notably his own mother's, also stood over the last-gasp 65 with Clare and Offaly level.

A few minutes earlier, it was his long-range free that had turned the game when it came back off the crossbar for Eamon Taaffe to rifle home.