Tipp foiled by Hogan’s last stand

IT’S been a year of upsets in the All-Ireland hurling championships.

Last Sunday underdogs Tipperary and Kilkenny ended the three-in-a-row dreams at minor and senior respectively of Galway and Cork, while yesterday, at Croke Park, the U21’s of Tipperary almost made it a hat-trick and came within an ace of upstaging hot favourites Kilkenny in a rip-roaring contest.

It all came down to a last second opportunist goal by young substitute Richie Hogan that saved Kilkenny. But it was nothing less than they deserved.