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21st July 2024
11:40am BST
Clare and Cork meet in the 2024 All-Ireland senior hurling final in Croke Park at 3.30. Keep up to date with all of the action below.
"140 years ago Michael Cusack cycled all the way to Hayes' hotel to found the GAA."
Brilliant from BBC commentator Thomas Niblock.
"America will have to wait a year, there'll be another year anyway." - Shane O'Donnell.
"Brian said to me 'thanks for coming back,' after the game, I said I'm going nowhere." - John Conlon.
Clare recorded a thrilling 3-29 to 1-34 victory over Cork in Sunday's All-Ireland final and afterwards former winning captain Anthony Daly was almost reduced to tears.
"It's only our seventh time here (in a final)," said Dalo.
"There was a lot of talk about five this year for our neighbours, and what a team they've been. And also for Brian (Lohan) to be in charge, for me, it's just an incredible moment."
"You'd be hurling every ball up here, sure Donal is as bad. It's your own. They've suffered so much as a team, losing three Munster finals in a row. Kilkenny had them tortured as well. To come back and fight, and to beat Wexford, Kilkenny and Cork."
Davy Fitzgerald's decision to play Shane O'Donnell int he 2013 All-Ireland final replay is one of the most famous managerial masterstrokes ever made.
O'Donnell was only a teenager who never started a game for Clare but Fitzgerald started him in the replay, with O'Donnell rewarding his faith with a remarkable 3-3 from play as Clare won.
Fitzgerald spoke on Up for The Match about the conversation he had with O'Donnell before the game.
"The night of the drawn game, I said it to Shane that I should have brought you on today," recalled the manager.
"I knew he was going well in training.
"We had a game in training before the replay, Shane scored 2-2 on the A team."
Darach Honan was the player who lost out on a starting place and Fitzgerald praised him for his reaction, with the tall forward helping Clare over the line with a late goal.
"He was on fire. We knew straight after the first game he was going to play the next day. It was only trying to keep it quiet and in fairness to Darach Honan, he had to do an unbelievable thing. We had to ask him to say you're starting, even though he wasn't.
"For someone to take that on board is tough. And he did it. And it allowed Shane that freedom, that he didn't know what was going to happen."
"I told him then two hours before throw-in and I'll never forget that reaction when I told him because I actually got pretty emotional myself when he said 'I won't let you down, I promise I won't let you down. To see him go out and do what he did afterwards, being so young, Oh my God, it was incredible."
Will the named teams start? Will Ryan Taylor come in for Clare. All will be revealed closer to throw-in.
Clare: Eibhear Quilligan; Adam Hogan, Conor Cleary, Conor Leen; Diarmuid Ryan, John Conlon, David McInerney; David Fitzgerald, Cathal Malone; Tony Kelly, Mark Rodgers, Peter Duggan; Aidan McCarthy, Shane O'Donnell, David Reidy.
Subs: Cian Broderick, Rory Hayes, Paul Flanagan, Cian Galvin, Darragh Lohan, Ryan Taylor, Seadna Morey, Aaron Shanagher, Ian Galvin, Shane Meehan, Robin Mounsey.
Cork: Patrick Collins; Niall O'Leary, Eoin Downey, Seán O’Donoghue; Ciarán Joyce, Robert Downey, Mark Coleman; Tim O’Mahony, Darragh Fitzgibbon; Declan Dalton, Shane Barrett, Séamus Harnedy; Patrick Horgan, Alan Connolly, Brian Hayes.
Subs: Brion Saunderson, Damien Cahalane, Ger Millerick, Tommy O’Connell, Luke Meade, Ethan Twomey, Conor Lehane, Jack O’Connor, Shane Kingston, Pádraig Power, Robbie O’Flynn.
