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Waterford 4-10 Tipperary 3-12

The most outstanding feature was the character they displayed to keep applying themselves during a period when they seemed incapable of wiping out the slim advantage Tipp enjoyed after a 59th-minute Colin Morrissey goal.

But, in what was truly a marvellous Guinness Munster hurling contest adorned by Eoin Kelly's superb play for Tipperary in the first-half it was noteworthy that the losers, too, spurned chances. That was both before and after Justin McCarthy's team got the breakthrough goal from substitute Paul O'Brien just a minute-and-a-half from the end of normal time.