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# 2000: Revisited

All time
'I was filled with so much emotion, I ran down to meet them all and it was absolutely magic'
'Incredible hurlers, the best two I've ever come across to demand the ball when the pressure was on'
'The collarbone, winning the All-Ireland and then breaking my jaw, it was probably a rough enough time'
When a 20-year-old kid from Tallaght joined 'one of the best teams in the world'
'Mayhem, absolute mayhem... It was just bedlam in Thomond Park that day'
'Passing tourists in Kildare can shout in the windows at people: 'Ye can’t score''
'In terms of what was achieved, it’s a year that I certainly wouldn’t want to change'
Listening to Johnny Cash with Páidí Ó Sé, trash talk in Irish and lifting Sam Maguire on the pitch
'Tiger had pinned a note to his locker: Congratulations... but you'll always be a fat f**k'
'I was told, 'You'll be going in now'. I nearly turned pale, I was thinking, 'Oh no Brendan, will you get up'
From Bizet to O'Brien: How Stand Up and Fight became a Munster anthem
'Here I am at the Olympics, halfway through the 1st round, and I'm thinking: 'What the 'f*** is going on?''
'Otto won Euro 2004 with Greece - big deal, I'd have taken them to a World Cup'