Champions prove that goals pave path to All-Ireland

SOMETHING interesting happened in the first minute in Thurles yesterday.

Cork created a chance that would have given them a flying start had Paudie O’Sullivan taken it, but Brendan Cummins did what Brendan Cummins so often does, touched the shot away and the underdogs had missed the opportunity to land an early uppercut.

In the event they would not create a better goal chance all afternoon, and against this Tipperary team points alone do not constitute the bread of life.