How Tipp went top

AS treasurer Eamonn Buckley told delegates after the 2008 accounts showed almost a 50% jump from the previous year’s figures: “You won’t have success without cost.”

It may be five years ago but John Costigan recalls the conversation with a great deal of clarity. You don’t forget such defining moments.

County chairman at the time, he had just watched Kilkenny go into the half-time break of a league semi-final with a 2-13 to 1-4 lead over Tipperary in Thurles when the newly-anointed GAA President Nickey Brennan greeted him.