Another cracker likely as Cork host arch rivals Tipp

LAST June they played out a wondrous game of hurling in Páirc Uí Chaoimh that reached the dizzying scoring heights of 5-17 apiece and that is the backdrop which tonight this year’s Cork and Tipperary minor hurlers meet in the ESB Munster MHC quarter-final in the same venue at 6.30pm.

“It was a fantastic game to watch,” recalls Tipperary manager Mark O’Leary.

“But at the same time, it was really heart-stopping stuff for a manager to be watching a game like that. To see 30 young lads at that age group to give you that sort of game was unreal. I remember the spectators that night gave them a standing ovation coming off that night and they deserved every bit of it.”