Tipperary tick another box as sweeper gets brushed aside

The old order changeth, Tennyson tells us, giving place to the new. Was yesterday’s Munster final an example of the new or the old, though?

Not by the result, maybe, with Tipperary running out facile winners over Waterford: 5-19 to 0-13 was as emphatic as you could ask for.

“A Munster championship is cherished in Tipp,” said their manager Michael Ryan afterwards, clearly delighted with the victory.