Tipp young guns bring ‘air of confidence’

EAMONN CORCORAN could have sidestepped the question, but that wouldn’t be his style.

“Are we mentioning 2001 again?”, he asked, inferring that it was a bit tiresome to be constantly reminded that he was one of the remaining links with Tipperary’s last All-Ireland winning team.

Corcoran came into the senior squad in 1997 when Len Gaynor was manager, two years later he made his championship debut and in another two years he had his All-Ireland medal in his back pocket. “You expect it to happen (again) the following year, or the year after that. I remember Declan Ryan and Johnny Leahy saying that after 1991 they thought it was automatically going to happen the year after. But, it took 10 years before it happened,” he said.