In the delirious aftermath of Clare's win over Limerick, John Conlon gave a shout-out to all those back at his brother's wedding, which he had briefly absconded from in order to go and deliver a Man of the Match display in the Gaelic Grounds.
As the Clare folk gathered on the pitch, Best Man Conlon had to scoot back to the wedding 'afters' without delay, amid much speculation on what class of reception he'd get on arriving back at the hotel.
Though Conlon did his best to keep it low-key, one doughty bridesmaid wasn't having it.
"I'd be unassuming, I'd try to go in the back door, I'd try to go over to have a pint with the cousins in the corner bar," Conlon tells RTÉ Sport.
"Then one of the bridesmaids saw me, she had me out on the dancefloor to make a bit of a deal out of it. I was quickly back to the bar as quick as I could.
"It was a super day. It was a great distraction. I didn't really think about it (the game) until I was inside in the hotel meeting the team before going to the Gaelic Grounds.
"It was just unfortunate the game came on the same day, it made the wedding in another sense at the end of it. The pressure was on me to get the win, making sure it wasn't a downer on the day.
"I was delighted for the brother, there is only the two of us. That was his special day and I didn't want to ruin it. So it was just super when we came back to the wedding after."
For Conlon, at least one benefit of this 'fixture clash' was the match spared him the task of delivering the Best Man speech - a considerably more daunting prospect than taking on the All-Ireland champions on their own patch.
"I had the speech written out alright. I gave it to my brother's best friend Eoin Meehan. As he said at the start, he told me he said, 'this is all written by John, so if I say anything bad here, this is John's fault there inside in the Gaelic Grounds.'
"I got a text off my wife saying they were in the middle of it as I was just getting ready inside in the dressing room. It was nice to see that it had gone off well.
"I did one of them before. They're a dreaded affair. You need a nice few whiskeys before it to get you ready. It was a lot easier in in the Gaelic Grounds.
"They had the speeches done before seven o'clock. The hotel, in fairness, put up a big TV screen for the wedding party. I'm sure nearly every table had the phones out with GAAGO going from what I hear.
"Obviously our own family is very steeped in GAA, but so is Elaine's family - my brother's wife. They were over the moon...
"It just added to the whole day, it just made for a massive atmosphere and made it a very special day that we can look back on in the future."
In addition to livening up the wedding party, the result revived Clare's chances in the absurdly cutthroat Munster championship, in the wake of the opening weekend loss to Tipperary in a goalfest in Ennis.
The landmark win - Limerick's first defeat in championship since July 2019 - copperfastened Clare's status as the champions' most awkward opponents.
Conlon backs up the theory that Limerick carry less of an intimidation factor against Clare, largely due to the familiarity and closeness of the two sets of players, from underage onwards.
"We were just delighted because the first day we were disappointed with the goals we gave away. To concede five goals, three of them the way we did…
"If you conceded those three goals at Junior B level at the club you would be very disappointed.
"So you can't give that headstart to any team. There were certain aspects of that game (against Tipp) in which we would have been delighted. When we reviewed it, when you look at the stats of the game and all the different things we record, we actually came out on top in a lot of them."
"With Limerick, we're playing a team that we know very well. We're intertwined in terms of work-life balance.
"My wife works in Monaleen as a primary school teacher. I work in Shannon. We only live out the road. I'm 10 minutes away from the Gaelic Grounds whereas I'm 40 minutes from Cusack Park.
"A lot of the hurling clubs would be in east Clare, which would be on the border with Limerick. The way Limerick City is designed, it's so close to the Clare border, it's just over the river Shannon to us.
"We were always intertwined. A team that's always winning, maybe there's that level of fear (about them) but maybe we don't have that same level of fear because we're so used to seeing each other, and engaging with each other."
"The lads on the team actually are at me because I am the only one who actually remembers '95 and '97.
Midway through the Munster round-robin, it remains a toss up as to who fills either the three qualifying spots or the two Munster final places. Clare - still seeking a first provincial title since 1998 - have an away game against a struggling Waterford side in Thurles and then a potentially seismic home game against Cork on the final weekend.
Though Clare's five-point win over Cork in the final round in 2019 wasn't enough to save their season, the county has had a strong record in the round robin, winning nine of their 14 Munster league games thus far and topping the table in both 2018 and 2022.
"It's a great structure and it's a good thing for Clare as well," says Conlon. "I think we've a great record in it over the last number of years as a team. It really suits our type of player.
"I just feel that we have a great bunch of forwards. Every year that it's been played, of all the teams, I think we're one of the teams with the most wins. It's a home and away arrangement too. You're obviously getting games in Ennis, which we wouldn't have gotten before.
"You can feel the atmosphere coming up throughout the town and going up tot the game. You can fit 17,000 but they're nearly in on top of you playing the game.
"You can recognise the different voices roaring in from the terraces. We love the little ground that we have and it's great to be able to play championship matches in there."
At 34, Conlon - an All-Ireland winner in 2013 and an All-Star in 2018 - is entering the twilight of his playing career.
He's recovered from two serious knee injuries, which hampered his involvement in 2019 and 2020.
While much has been written about his famously cutting edge approach to diet and conditioning, he plays down the angle that he blends his food - "The blending thing, that was only a funny thing that everyone thinks I do but I don't actually do it! I did it for the few matches that year but I haven't really done it since. I get slagged all the time now about my blending."
The only current Clare player with any memory of the Loughnane era glory days - even fellow 2013 veteran Tony Kelly was too young for that - Conlon admits that his biggest jolt was learning that one of his ex-primary school students was on the senior panel.
"The lads on the team actually are at me because I am the only one who actually remembers '95 and ’97.
"I got a bit of a shock last year when one of the players said I actually taught him back at Primary School in my first year out doing the subbing rounds.
"It’s great, like. The best bit of advice I was told was a few years ago when I hurt my knee; 'Keep playing as long as you can, because once it’s over, it’s over and you can’t get that thrill back.’
"I love playing inside in the Gaelic Grounds in front of 32,000, it’s very hard to replicate that thrill, what you get off that.
"I will miss it when it is gone and I suppose I am not far from that now.
"But once my body keeps feeling the way it is, I can still balance that, that work-life-family balance, I will keep doing it. It keeps me active, it keeps me in that circle and it is a great thing to represent Clare, to put on that jersey and be as close to a professional sports person as you can be."
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