Tipperary captain Brendan Maher says Eoin Kelly was the best hurler he ever saw.

Kelly yesterday brought the curtain down on his illustrious intercounty career and Maher reckons the Mullinahone man is irreplaceable:

"I think if you put him in any position and gave him time there he'd be able to master it," he told Tipp FM. "He's the best I've ever seen and I reckon he'll be the best we'll ever see.

"I remember Shane McGrath telling me a story from a few years ago of a college game involving LIT. Shane used to take the sidelines but Eoin was having such a good day. It was wet, I think, a cold January evening.

"So Shane was going to take the sideline but Eoin told him to get away from it. Over he went and popped it over the bar and nobody had ever seen him taking a sideline before! He was just a player that could do anything.

"The presence Eoin had both on and off the pitch, I don't think there's anyone will ever have it. He was a very deep thinker and he always had purpose with anything he said or anything he did and I think that showed on the field as well."

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