Patient Tipperary looking after minor matters first

TIPPERARY U21 manager Tom Fogarty believes the county need to contest more and more underage finals if they are to catch Cork and Kilkenny in the senior stakes.

And he admitted that there was no temptation to include any of the All-Ireland MHC winning side in his squad for Sunday’s pulsating drawn decider with Kilkenny.

The Premier County won the minor crown a week previously but there was no place for corner-back Brendan Maher, captain Joey McLoughney or sharp-shooting corner-forwards Patrick Bourke and Timmy Dalton on the U21 side.