By virtue of Waterford's win last Sunday, McCarthy won his sixth senior Munster title as a coach, meaning he has now won more Munsters than any other coach of the last 40 years.

Up until last Sunday, himself and Babs Keating were level on five each, one ahead of Fr Bertie Troy, who served with McCarthy as a selector when Cork won the 1975 Munster championship.

That's right. McCarthy won his first Munster the same summer that Sligo won their last Connacht until last Sunday.

McCarthy was only 30 at the time when he supervised a side that also beat Limerick in a Munster final.

Not since the days of Kerry's Dr Eamonn O'Sullivan and Cork's legendary trainer Jim 'Tough' Barry (who each trained teams from the mid-'20s right up to the mid-'60s) has another figure in hurling or football won provincial titles over such a time span. Not even Mick O'Dwyer (below left).

See for yourself (see 'Magnificent Seven', left).