As the euphoria has gradually wound down following Clare's fifth All-Ireland success, Tony Kelly and Shane O'Donnell are jointly left holding a peculiar distinction.
There can't be many players in the history of the association that have collected their first All-Ireland title in their teens and their second in their 30s.
"It's mad," Kelly tells RTÉ Sport. "Some of us won when we were 18 or 19. Won nothing in our 20s. And we're winning again now we're in our 30s. That's just sport. But yeah, we're lucky to have those two.
"(It's) different to 2013. Back then, we probably came from underage success and you're thinking, this is great, this is what's supposed to happen.
"You go from 2013 to 2024 without an All-Ireland - it makes you appreciate it more."
It was back in 2013 that Davy Fitz famously announced that "we enjoy ourselves in Clare and let that recession go to hell!"
The celebrations following Clare's latest All-Ireland victory, which a sizable portion of the wider public were able to sample via the thrilling medium of Buff Egan's Instagram stories, certainly had a last days of Ennis feel - at least from the vantage point of Buff's famously durable camera phone.
How did Kelly and his fellow players enjoy the post-All-Ireland shindig this time around?
"We went back to the Intercontinental on that Sunday night (after the final). Everyone was so, so tired.
"There wasn't too much drinking or gallivanting around. Everyone was so wrecked. I was running on empty myself. I was in bed by quarter to two, I was just absolutely shattered.
"On Monday then, we had unbelievable craic. We stopped at Brian Lohan's club Wolfe Tones first of all. He was carried in shoulder high from the bus into the clubhouse.
"Great reception there. Great reception in Clarecastle. And then into the Fair Green (in Ennis). There was, I think, 30-35,000 there. That's really when our work kicked off.
"The homecoming in Ballyea was that extra bit special for myself. Between myself and Paul (Flanagan), we've had an unbelievable last 10 years in the club, between winning county championships, winning Munster club, getting to an All-Ireland club final, and then finally having myself and Paul on the (county) panel.
"We tried to hit as many clubs and establishments as we could in Clare that week.
"It was never-ending. It was a tough couple of weeks. It was tougher than any pre-season that you'd do. Lads were shattered after it. But it was worth it."
Clare hurling had been through the ringer since that bolt-from-the-blue success 11 years ago, with governance disputes and off-the-field wrangling for a time dominating the agenda more than the senior team's results - never a healthy sign.
Kelly was instantly identified as the star graduate from the medal-laden Clare underage crop of the early 2010s, which pulled in three All-Ireland Under-21 titles in a row in the 2012-14 period.
As Fitzgerald's insurgent side - which comprised of a healthy batch of decorated youngsters as well as a few grizzled older heads who'd endured much disappointment - mounted their unlikely raid on the All-Ireland championship, Kelly finished 2013 clutching the Hurler of the Year and Young Hurler of the Year awards, the first player to do so.
Given their stranglehold on the U21 ranks, and the early senior medal, the logical assumption might have been that there'd be plenty more where that came from.
But the follow-up triumph never arrived, and Clare hurling stagnated badly in the years afterwards, giving the 2013 campaign the air of a strange hallucination.
They won two championship matches against top tier opposition in the next four years, both, incidentally, against Limerick in their pre-imperial guise. They wouldn't even get a run around HQ until 2018. Did belief waver during the lean years?
"You have to believe that you can compete or get to the business end of the championship," says Kelly.
"In those years between 2013 and 2018, for one reason or another, we didn't play well enough, didn't have enough lads playing well enough.
"Probably beaten by better teams. That Galway team around '17. Tipperary around then. Cork.
"Every year is different. There's no guarantees next year that we're going to get to the business end of the championship.
"Since Brian's came in, we've been relatively consistent in getting to that latter end of the championship."
Lohan's status as a demi-god in Clare has been firmly in place since his inspirational playing career. After last month, the 'demi' bit has been removed.
In his post-victory speech from the Hogan, Kelly delivered a rousing tribute to Lohan (aka, 'our God'), under whom he's played the finest hurling of his career since the turn of the decade.
'In Clare, hurling is like a religion and Brian Lohan is like our God'
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Tony Kelly and the Clare support salute Brian Lohan, who now has an All-Ireland victory as a manager to go with the two he won as a player
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In contrast to the 2010s, where Clare snatched an All-Ireland victory but their form was often wildly uneven, under Lohan in the 2020s, they've been enormously consistent, reaching three Munster finals on the bounce and twice topping the provincial round robin.
In the lead-up to the final, Lohan himself insisted that he was "not a career manager" and that, while he was cognisant of the changes in the game since his playing days, he wouldn't be discarding everything he learnt at the feet of Ger Loughnane.
Kelly described Lohan's approach as a perfect blend of traditional and modern, and stresses the Clare manager is somewhat different from forbidding public persona.
"Here in Clare, he's revered. Probably more so for being an unbelievable player. He gets the whole preparation angle. He knows what goes into preparing an inter-county time. He knows the work that individuals have to do off the field and on the field.
"He can be easy-going. He can be savage craic at training. There isn't a week goes by that he hasn't got the panel laughing at some stage.
"What ye see in the media, he probably comes across very stern, very determined, very stand-offish.
"But inside our own camp, he can be the same but he can be great craic. He can be stern with lads when he has to be in terms of demanding more. But if lads are doing well, he's a good communicator in terms of getting that across if lads need confidence. And he's very approachable.
"It's probably the best set-up we've been in. Us older lads have been there a long time. But it's very enjoyable. He gets it from a player's point of view, which is mighty for us.
"He's just known as Lohan. It's not Brian, it's just Lohan. Seanie (McMahon) would have the same (aura). Colin Lynch as well.
"We were nine, ten, 11 when those lads were probably coming to their end. But we got to see them in Croke Park. Cork beat them in a semi-final in '05, which was a killer. In '06, Kilkenny beat them in an All-Ireland semi-final. So those teams were getting to Croke Park.
"Your older brothers and sisters or your parents, people in the club, would revere them lads. And especially Brian. His name would carry serious cachet and serious weight in county Clare."
