Keating targets place in league quarter-finals

ALMOST 20 years after beginning the task of putting Tipperary hurling back on the map, Babs Keating is back at the helm again.

With typical frankness, he admits that the early season games in the Waterford Crystal competition have not been over-encouraging in terms of unearthing new talent. But, with the zest which has characterised his career as player and coach, he will drive on over the coming weeks with the ambition of coming up with a settled side.

The immediate target will be a quarter-final place on March 9 in the Allianz League, which starts for them on Sunday with a game against Limerick in the Gaelic Grounds.