Tipperary's veteran goalkeeper Darren Gleeson has made himself available to manager Michael Ryan for next season.

The 35-year-old custodian, who played second fiddle to Brendan Cummins for most of his intercounty career, completed his third full season as first-choice 'keeper in style at Croke Park on Sunday as he contributed handsomely to Tipp's All-Ireland final win over Kilkenny - executing two superb saves and also excelling from puck-outs:

"Mick has to pick a panel in November and I've never been the smallest in November! If he wants me to do it, I have to be smaller than I usually am," he told The Irish Independent.

"Mick could have easily gone with a young goalie and put his own stamp on it but he trusted me and I'm delighted he gave me the honour for doing that.

"We're a long time building for this. A lot of hurt was shown out on that field. Lads have been building it up for the guts of two years. We didn't let it out when we should have had last year but we redeemed ourselves."

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