Tipp eyeing a slice of history

ANOTHER box ticked. And what a box.

Tipperary’s steady climb towards the summit of Gaelic football reached its highest plateau yet as their minor footballers qualified for the county’s first All-Ireland final in the code since losing the same grade’s decider to Dublin in 1984.

That appearance more than a quarter of a century ago was something of a one-off for the Munster outfit, an anomaly, but results at underage levels in recent years would suggest that this achievement is merely the end of the beginning for the county.