Tony Kelly: It's different to 2013 - you appreciate it more

As the euphoria has gradually wound down following Clare's fifth All-Ireland success, Tony Kelly and Shane O'Donnell are jointly left holding a peculiar distinction.

There can't be many players in the history of the association that have collected their first All-Ireland title in their teens and their second in their 30s.

"It's mad," Kelly tells RTÉ Sport. "Some of us won when we were 18 or 19. Won nothing in our 20s. And we're winning again now we're in our 30s. That's just sport. But yeah, we're lucky to have those two.

"(It's) different to 2013. Back then, we probably came from underage success and you're thinking, this is great, this is what's supposed to happen.

"You go from 2013 to 2024 without an All-Ireland - it makes you appreciate it more."

It was back in 2013 that Davy Fitz famously announced that "we enjoy ourselves in Clare and let that recession go to hell!"

The celebrations following Clare's latest All-Ireland victory, which a sizable portion of the wider public were able to sample via the thrilling medium of Buff Egan's Instagram stories, certainly had a last days of Ennis feel - at least from the vantage point of Buff's famously durable camera phone.

How did Kelly and his fellow players enjoy the post-All-Ireland shindig this time around?

"We went back to the Intercontinental on that Sunday night (after the final). Everyone was so, so tired.

"There wasn't too much drinking or gallivanting around. Everyone was so wrecked. I was running on empty myself. I was in bed by quarter to two, I was just absolutely shattered.

"On Monday then, we had unbelievable craic. We stopped at Brian Lohan's club Wolfe Tones first of all. He was carried in shoulder high from the bus into the clubhouse.

"Great reception there. Great