Mulrooney: In a nutshell, we were on fire

IT WAS the kind of performance every coach dreams about, when everything you do in training is replicated on match day.

Easy then to understand the jubilation of their coach, Richie Mulrooney: “In a nutshell, we were on fire today. There is no other way to describe that kind of performance, but we’re only in the final now, and it will take a similar performance to beat either Cork or Galway.

“Up until today, we hadn’t been severely tested. Tipp were involved in a couple of tight games in Munster and it may have taken a lot out of them. Remember they were going for their third title in-a-row and that too may have been a burden on them.