They say there’s more than one way to skin a Cat. Tipperary manager Eamon O’Shea said that Kilkenny were ‘ferocious’ and ‘formidable’ and that the Tipp players ‘tried to match this but couldn’t on the day’.

The City Council made a hames of the Irish translation of ‘English Market’, with the assistance of ‘Google Translate’, and had to replace the ‘made-in-England’ signs.