Ger Loughnane: 'It was better than the All-Ireland or Munster final. It was deeper'

In this extract from the best-selling ‘Clare: Game of my Life’, in which 30 of the county’s greatest hurlers remember the one game that defined their sporting lives, Ger Loughnane revisits Páirc Uí Chaoimh in July of 1997.

Clare captain Anthony Daly lifts the cup after the Munster final win over Tipperary at Páirc Uí Chaoimh in Cork. Picture: Ray McManus/Sportsfile

Michael O'Halloran was on a fella called Philip O’Dwyer. I was at the far side of the field and I saw Len Gaynor going up past the Clare dugout and down the sideline. I saw O’Dwyer moving towards him and O’Halloran after him.

‘Jesus!’ I said, ‘I better get down there’.