Tipp official hears good news while on holiday in South Africa

A BOLT from the blue was how Brian Tyrell described the news that he had been appointed referee to next Sunday’s Munster Club SFC final in Killarney.

Currently on holiday in South Africa, the Tipperary man received the great news via a text message on a mobile phone from his county colleague Willie Barrett and had been itching to get home very since.

"I went on holidays never dreaming that I was in with a chance of getting Sunday's final. So when I was informed that I had been appointed, you can imagine my surprise, particularly as I'm so far away from home.