Anthony Daly: Amongst the heated debate, here is my All-Star team

Anthony Daly picks his All-Star XV ahead of the awards being announced tonight

Aaron Gillane would be unlucky to miss out on All-Star but Anthony Daly feels the competition in the full-forward line is so fierce he’d leave the Limerick man out. Picture: Piaras Ó Mídheach/Sportsfile

On the day the All-Stars awards were presented in 1998, all the Clare lads got lunch-time flights from Shannon to Dublin. The women had hair and make-up appointments booked around the city not long after we landed and a handful of us spotted the perfect window of opportunity to have the craic amongst ourselves before the night really kicked off.

Back then, it was easy to lose yourself in the moment, to disconnect from everything else and just casually luxuriate in the company you were in. Mobile phones weren’t exactly common in 1998.