We’ll go down as a team, says Jovita

PLENTY of disappointed faces, but few tears in public from the Tipperary girls as they trooped off the field in Croke Park yesterday, bravely accepting defeat for the second year in a row.

Then again, there was a sense of inevitability about this Gala All-Ireland camogie final, compared to last year when victory was snatched from Tipperary at the finish.

Manager Paddy McCormack was magnanimous in defeat, readily accepting that ‘the best team’ had won, while making the point that their scoring rate was too low.