Big guns fire super Sarsfields to promised land after battle royal

Thurles Sarsfields (Tipperary) 1-21 De La Salle (Waterford) 1-16

Big guns fire super Sarsfields to promised land after battle royal

Thrills and spills, tenacious tackling, ferocious defending, brilliant point-taking, a net-bursting goal each — the 2,433 who defied the pelting rain to make the journey to Cork got a game to remember.

From the start this was always going to be a very different match to the 2010 Munster final when these same two sides again met in Cork. On that bitterly cold and forgettable day much of the pitch was frozen solid and De La Salle won a low-scoring error-fest 0-9 to 0-8 with Thurles shooting 17 wides.

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