All the hard work paid off for Michael ‘Brick’ Walsh, according to his former team-mate Tony Browne.

The pair were vital cogs in four Munster SHC winning teams and 1998 ‘Hurler of the Year’ Browne led the tributes to the Stradbally clubman following the announcement of his inter-county retirement this week.

“I would have marked him at first, and he was a little bit raw at the time, but God what a player to just put down his head and work hard,” Browne outlined to the Irish Daily Star.

“Michael had to work very, very hard on his game, but over the years he turned himself into a very, very good hurler – a top-class hurler.

“The man had four All Stars.”

Browne added: “In everything he has done and all the honours he won, what I like most about him is he never lost the run of himself.

“He was just class all over, just a pleasure to work with, because he got on with things.

“You have fantastic leaders who vocally say the right things. But then you come across someone who doesn’t have to say much and yet you admire and look up to for the fact they just do it on the field.

“They pull you out of situations you don’t even realise you are in. You don’t come across those types of people too often.

“I’d say Liam Cahill would love to have him in his prime, especially going forward. Look, times catches up on everyone.”

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