Fogarty Forum: Offence is easily taken in hurling

Meanwhile Clare are staying low but aiming high and Michael Murphy may have lost the benefit of doubt.

CHAMPIONS: A lack of respect to the All-Ireland champions had been perceived in the county these last few weeks. Pic: ©INPHO/Ryan Byrne.

Tipperary didn’t need Dónal Óg Cusack’s poke on Sunday evening to stir them.

Truth is, a lack of respect to the All-Ireland champions had been perceived in the county these last few weeks. The talk of Cork and Limerick’s multiple meetings has not gone down well in the land of milk and honey, as Cusack recently described Tipperary.