One of the stories of the weekend was David Burke's role in St Thomas' dramatic All-Ireland Club SHC semi-final penalty shootout victory over Ballygunner.

The 2017 Galway All-Ireland SHC winning captain played the full game, including extra-time, just nine months after suffering an ACL injury. It came after his recovery from what is usually a season-ending injury was featured on RTÉ's My BodyFix programme and after he came off the bench in St Thomas' Galway SHC semi-final and final wins over Sarsfields and Turloughmore respectively.

“At full-time inside, I was getting a rub and the boys were looking over at me. I said I’d stay going as long as I could. I don’t think they wanted me to come off either,” Burke told reporters after the Saturday night thriller in Portlaoise.

“It was the same for everyone, you could see lads were cramping up. The ferocity in the ruck ball was just a different level, oh my God . . . and our ability to stay with Ballygunner in that duel on the ground, that was the reason why we were still in the game.”

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