Clare forwards find range and Tipp have no answer

Clare 2-17 Tipperary 0-14

For Tipperary, a recipe for disaster, for Clare, the ingredients for what could become a new chapter.

Tipperary came to Pairc Uí Chaoimh yesterday heavily favoured on the back of a successful league campaign. Not until yesterday however was the real cost of that run realised. Wing-back Eamonn Corcoran had picked up a three-month suspension, full-back Philly Maher damaged his cruciate against Kilkenny.