A decade on, we have a look at what the hurling All-Star team of the 2013 season are doing in their lives and sporting careers.
2013 was a momentous year for Clare as a young team defeated Cork after a replay to win the county's fourth ever All-Ireland title.
2013 All-Star Hurling Team
Goalkeeper
Anthony Nash (Cork) - All-Star 2012, 2013
Nash retired from inter-county hurling following the 2020 season, 14 years after his senior Cork debut. Shortly after, he transferred from his home club Kanturk to Limerick side South Liberties where he has strong family ties. Those include his cousin, the current Limerick hurler Barry Nash.
Nash announced his retirement from club hurling following the 2022 Limerick championship but made a U-turn on that decision this year. The 39-year-old wrote in his column for The42.ie that he was returning to club action out of a "sense of duty" as South Liberties had been hit badly with injuries.
He scored a goal from a penalty as South Liberties defeated Garryspillane 7-13 to 2-18 to secure their senior status for next season.
💥A goal for Anthony Nash in what may be the final game of a stellar career. @GarryspillaneGA 1-18 : 6-13 @SouthLibertiesG@LimerickCLG | @Bonslimerick
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Nash was a coach under manager Ben O'Connor as Cork won the 2023 All-Ireland U20 Hurling Championship and was a selector with UL as they won this year's Fitzgibbon Cup.
He also worked with Sky Sports during their coverage of the hurling championship.
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Richie McCarthy (Limerick) - All-Star 2013
After 11 years playing for Limerick - many of which heard 'Ooohhh Richie McCarthy chanted from the terraces - the Blackrock man retired following the 2019 season. The previous year, he was part of the Limerick side which won the county's first All-Ireland hurling title since 1973. McCarthy came on as a substitute in the final against Galway.
"Once we won the All-Ireland in 2018, I was happy," McCarthy told the Irish Examiner in 2020.
"I had just had a successful year last year winning the premier intermediate with Blackrock.
"We (McCarthy and John Kiely) met personally, we spoke about it and it was the best thing to do. I had given 10 or 11 years’ service to Limerick. We got close in 2013 and 2014 that after finally winning it and me pushing on in age and with the cruciate injury that it make sense to step away."
Peter Kelly (Dublin) - All-Star 2013
The Lucan Sarsfields man retired from inter-county hurling in the spring of 2018, aged 29.
"For the longevity of my club career, this is the right choice for me," he posted on social media.
16 October 2021; Stephen Kelly of Craobh Chiaráin in action against Peter Kelly of Lucan Sarsfields during the Go Ahead Dublin County Senior Club Hurling Championship quarter-final match between Craobh Chiaráin and Lucan Sarsfields at Parnell Park in Dublin. Photo by Eóin Noonan/Sportsfile
He has served as a selector with the Westmeath hurlers under manager Joe Fortune for the past two seasons.
Kelly works in finance.
David McInerney (Clare) - All-Star 2013
One of a handful of players from the 2013 Clare All-Ireland winning team team who is still playing at inter-county level. McInerney started this year's All-Ireland semi-final defeat to Kilkenny at wing-back and scored a point. He has been nominated for a PwC Hurling All-Star this year.
McInerney is a primary school teacher.
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Brendan Bugler - Clare
Banner manager Brian Lohan confirmed to Clare GAA TV recently that Bugler will be joining his backroom team as hurling coach for the upcoming season. He replaces Sean Treacy.
14 November 2020; Wexford coach Brendan Bugler before the GAA Hurling All-Ireland Senior Championship Qualifier Round 2 match between Wexford and Clare at MW Hire O'Moore Park in Portlaoise, Laois. Photo by Piaras Ó Mídheach/Sportsfile
Bugler, a teacher at St Flannan's College in Ennis, was previously a coach with the Wexford hurlers during Davy Fitzgerald's time as manager. He has also managed Offaly side Birr and was involved with the Clare U20s.
He retired from inter-county hurling after the 2017 season.
Liam Rushe (Dublin) - All-Star 2011 and 2013
Rushe stepped away from the Dublin panel last year, missing what was Micheál Donoghue's first season in charge of the capital's hurlers.
In 2021, Rushe transferred clubs from St Pat's Palmerstown to Na Fianna and helped the north Dublin side reach its first-ever senior hurling championship that season.
9 October 2022; Liam Rushe of Na Fianna in action against Colm Cronin of Cuala during the Go Ahead Dublin County Senior Club Hurling Championship Semi-Final match between Cuala and Na Fianna at Parnell Park in Dublin. Photo by Ben McShane/Sportsfile
"He's a born leader on and off the pitch," Dublin and Na Fianna teammate Dónal Burke told Balls about Rushe.
"We've quite a lot of young lads on our team so he's someone to look up to. It's a big role."
At the weekend, Rushe was part of the Na Fianna side which defeated reigning champions Kilmacud Crokes in the Dublin SHC quarter-finals.
In addition to his 2013 All-Star at centre-back, Rushe also won one at midfield in 2011.
He works for PwC.
Patrick Donnellan - Clare
The 2013 captain also retired in 2017, a week after Bugler, citing the need to prioritise his life outside of hurling.
"The reality in Ireland is the GAA is not a professional sport, so you can’t dedicate every minute of your day outside of it to recovery and eating well and planning and preparing while earning a living," he told the Irish Sun.
"The GAA is unusual in that the more the demands have gone up, nothing has come in to replace the amount of time you lose at home or promotions you can’t have in your job.”
Donnellan was part of the O'Callaghan's Mills side which lost the 2020 Clare SFC final to Sixmilebridge.
He is the chief commercial officer of International Aerospace Coatings.
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Colm Galvin - Clare
The Clonlara man retired from inter-county hurling in early 2022 due to a persistent groin injury.
"Probably the biggest thing with him is the loss in the dressing room," Tony Kelly told Balls shortly after Galvin's retirement.
"He was probably one of the biggest characters we had in terms of being really easy to get along with, always good craic, just one of those good lads you'd have in the dressing-room that when he's gone he's sorely missed.
28 September 2013; Padraic Collins, 13, and Colm Galvin, 8, Clare celebrate with team-mates at the end of the game. GAA Hurling All-Ireland Senior Championship Final Replay, Cork v Clare, Croke Park, Dublin. Picture credit: David Maher / SPORTSFILE
"He's definitely one of the best hurlers, if not the best hurler, I've played with all the way up along. Just an exceptional hurler.
"His biggest attribute was probably his actual brain. He obviously had all the skills and all the hurling as well but the reading of it, where to be, the right pass to play, his knowledge of the actual game."
Galvin is part of the Clonlara team which has reached the semi-final of this year's Clare SHC.
Conor Ryan - Clare
Ryan, Man of the Match in the drawn final, was forced to take a step back from hurling in 2018, aged just 26, due to an issue with his pituitary gland. It had been discovered two years earlier by a routine blood test.
"My energy levels were wiped, there was no adrenalin running through my body," he told the Sunday Independent in 2018. Ryan said the "hardest part" at the time was having to tell his younger brother Diarmuid that they would never play together.
Five years on, Diarmuid is a key player for the Clare hurlers, and remarkably he and Conor have lined out together with Cratloe. Conor returned to training with the club this summer.
"I never thought I'd put on the jersey again," he told the Clare TV YouTube channel after a recent senior football championship victory over Ennistymon.
"When you come back and see what these boys do for their club, and you can see it's a real club effort out here, it's hard to just stand around and watch. It's extra special that most of my buddies are still here, my younger brother as well. You never lose the game, it's the sharpness that might not come.
"That was my first time playing a football match with Diarmuid. It was great to see the man he's become. He's the leader on this team as well. You'd be looking up to him, our roles are reversed."
Ryan came off the bench for Cratloe as they defeated Éire Óg Ennis to reach the final of this year's Clare SFC.
He works in corporate development for IBM.
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Seamus Harnedy (Cork) - All-Stars 2013, 2018
12 years on from his senior inter-county debut, Harnedy is still a key player for Cork.
After Cork were eliminated from this year's Munster championship, Harnedy spent the summer playing hurling in San Francisco with the Tipperary club.
He scored three points for Imokilly as the divisional side reached the semi-final stage of this year's Cork Premier SHC with victory over Douglas. Harnedy also contributed three points as Imokilly were beaten by Sarsfields after extra-time in the semi-final.
Tony Kelly (Clare) - All Star 2013, 2020, 2021, 2022
The Ballyea man won Hurler and Young Hurler of the Year in 2013. 10 years on, he is a four-time All-Star and widely regarded as one of the greatest hurlers currently playing. He has also been nominated for a PwC Hurling All-Star award this season.
Kelly is a teacher at St Flannan's College in Ennis.
Danny Sutcliffe (Dublin) - All-Star 2013
The St Jude's man was just 21 when he won his All-Star. Sutcliffe took a break from the Dublin panel in 2016 and 2017 as he concentrated on his education and moved to New York to work in the finance industry. He lined out with the New York footballers while he was Stateside.
He returned to the Dublin panel for the 2018 season after a phone call from then manager Pat Gilroy.
He was nominated for a PwC Hurling All-Star in 2021.
Heroic block down by Danny Sutcliffe in the last few seconds to help win the match for @DubGAAOfficial pic.twitter.com/0tUAMyGn9j
— The GAA (@officialgaa) April 23, 2022
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Podge Collins (Clare) - All-Star 2013
The Cratloe man is still playing at inter-county level, though in football rather than hurling.
Collins played with both the Clare footballers and hurlers between 2014 and 2016. In 2017, he committed to the hurlers but stepped away from the panel in late 2020 before the season resumed following the Covid-19 enforced break. He has lined out with the county's footballers since then.
Collins - who scored three points from play during the game - hit the winning penalty for Cratloe in their Clare SFC shootout victory over Éire Óg at the weekend.
He works in finance.
9 April 2023; Padraic Collins of Clare in action against in action against Steven Sherlock of Cork during the Munster GAA Football Senior Championship Quarter-Final match between Clare and Cork at Cusack Park in Ennis, Clare. Photo by Piaras Ó Mídheach/Sportsfile
Patrick Horgan (Cork) - All-Star 2013, 2017, 2018, 2019
A decade on from winning his first All-Star, the 35-year-old is as important for Cork as ever. He played ever minute for the Rebels as they were knocked out of this year's hurling championship at the provincial stage. Still, he has been nominated for a PwC Hurling All-Star this year.
"I think I am fitter than ever. As fast. I love going to training," Horgan told the Irish Examiner in June.
"I’m delighted to be able to do that, to be able to head down early for training. I love picking a sliotar. When have all those things, I don’t see why you can’t play on."
The sides are level following Patrick Horgan's superb goal for Cork. pic.twitter.com/hALBmX1vUX
— The GAA (@officialgaa) May 21, 2023
Conor McGrath (Clare) - All-Star 2013
The Cratloe man last played for Clare in 2018. He missed the 2019 season due to injury, his first not being part of a Clare squad - underage or senior - since 2005.
He still plays for Cratloe.
McGrath works for Deloitte Ireland.
