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Former Clare hurler and writer, Tony Griffin, is the subject of a new podcast entitled GAA Minor Memories, which has just been released. Reminiscing on his minor days in the podcast, Griffin speaks fondly about his personal highlight at that grade – beating Cork alongside his Clare teammates. The main piece of advice he offers to younger players is to play the long game, to look at playing minor as the start of your journey rather than the end. He emphasises that some of the biggest names across both hurling and football in the present day never made their own minor squads. Making his senior debut for Clare in 2000 and scoring six points from play in this fixture, Tony looks back at how the relationships between teammates have developed over the years. Tony remarks on the evolution of this relationship, from a place of being deliberately tough on newer players, to today where teammates have great camaraderie and support …
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