Tipperary's journey over for now but pride still very much intact

The journey is over for now, but if Liam Kearns and his men were told at the start of this difficult year that they would play in front of almost 54,000 people in Croke Park on All-Ireland semi-final day, they would have accepted that scenario with open arms.

Pride was the overriding emotion, then, at the final whistle, despite the disappointment. But as I mulled over this one, stuck in matchday traffic out of Druncondra, I was already coming round to the view that the players will see this as one that got away.

I had commented all week that Tipp needed a solid opening quarter to have any chance of winning. They had that, but they could have profited much more from that bright start were it not for some poor wides from very scoreable positions.