Michael Ryan’s stamp delivers title for Tipperary tigers

The sight of Michael Ryan smiling and laughing on Croke Park’s big screens as Richie Hogan desperately flung his hurley to stop an errant TJ Reid pass in the final minute of action seemed to peeve those Kilkenny supporters who remained on for additional time even though the game was more than up on their team’s three-in-a-row hopes.
Fuel for the 2017 fire, perhaps, but it’s Tipperary’s inferno that now burns the brightest.