Drive through the little village of Kildimo and outskirts of Limerick city and you'll spot some curious signs as you enter and exit. It's been renamed, 'Kyledimo'.
"One of the lads, Stokes is his name, I actually met him the Tuesday after the final - I was after getting diesel - and he was joking saying he was going doing it," said Kyle Hayes, the Limerick All-Ireland winning hurler after whom the village has been temporarily been renamed.
"Little did I know he was actually going to go ahead and do it. I think I might need to need a cutters to them."
Along with Hayes, Kildimo also had Barry O'Connell on the county's extended senior panel. The two are yet to bring the Liam MacCarthy Cup back to the village - it's been booked out for September and half of October.
"It's a small rural club so everyone would be close, kind of like a family," said Hayes after receiving his PwC Player of the All-Ireland Final award on Wednesday.
We were never a massive hurling club but gradually now we're getting there bit by bit.
It's crazy, the reaction we're getting in Limerick, people are still coming up and congratulating you and it's four or five weeks on since the final.
You're meeting men in their 50s just after the match or the week of it and they're nearly breaking down crying to you.
It shows you how much it means to everyone in Limerick. It's such a major thing and something I want more often.
A desire to subdue hype in the county was evident immediately after the semi-final against Cork. Shane Dowling mentioned it in his post-match interview. No county has ever seemed more allergic. Letters were written to local newspapers from concerned supporters urging them to take it easy in the build-up.
Working in Cork for the week leading up to the final helped Hayes avoid any distraction.
"It's tough for some guys who work in Limerick.
"Say, Dowling, he works in a pharmacy and it would have been very tough for him. People coming in every day and talking about just hurling.
"They mean well, they're not doing it for spite, it's just conversation. We kind of addressed that, that it was going to be a big deal, and we didn't want it to get into our heads."
That the All-Ireland win may go to their heads, that they'll let standards drop in defence doesn't appear to be a worry for this Limerick team. They seem grounded and hungry for more - that's even the case for those having a village renamed in their honour.
Two brothers whose hurling careers were disrupted by knee injuries also give Hayes an extra appreciation for how precious this time is.
"We weren't getting carried away. Everyone is the same, that's why we did well this year. There's no point listening to stories outside of the camp. You'll only get your head blown up.
"You're part of a lucky few, especially these days when a career span is probably only five, six, seven years. It's kind of becoming a young man's game. While you're here now really make the most of it.
"I think all the rest of the boys are all the same. They have that in their head. We just want to put the jersey in a better place, really."
PwC GAA/GPA Players of the All-Ireland Finals in football, Jack McCaffrey of Dublin, and hurler, Kyle Hayes of Limerick, were on hand to help launch the new PwC All Stars App and pick up their respective awards. Aaron Gillane was also in attendance to receive his hurling award for August.
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