Clare football captain Gary Brennan has led the tributes to his former Banner County team-mate Michael O'Shea.

A regular on the county team from 1999 to 2014, Brennan describes O'Shea - who tragically died at the young age of 37 yesterday following a battle with cancer - as "one of our best forwards for a long number of years".

"It's awful news, terribly sad," Brennan told GAA.ie. "We knew he had been sick, but for Michael to be taken from us at such a young age is just very sad.

"For all his family and club-mates and friends around Kilkee especially, it's a very sad time.

"Michael was a great servant for Clare football and was just a brilliant influence around the place. He was a guy who was always positive and encouraging to younger fellas and a guy you could always go to and have a chat with if you wanted to bounce ideas off him.

"He was a really positive influence and a really good example to the younger fellas when we were coming on the squad on how to prepare and how to look after yourself and how to approach games.

"Aside from having an excellent personality, he was a damn good footballer on top of it. He was one of our best forwards for a long number of years and played consistently well for a very long time.

"He looked after himself really well and was always just a real good team-mate and a real good friend."

A teammate, an opposing player, a work colleague, a warrior and most importantly a friend and a fine good one at that. RIP mike. We had so many good days and nights together. Until we meet again and we will pic.twitter.com/uHLgnzGnCv

- Joe Hayes (@1JoeH) August 21, 2018

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