Stapleton finds the fun factor

What is it about red-haired Tipperary right-half-backs and playing with a smile on your face?

For years it was Eamon Corcoran, now it’s Thomas Stapleton, and they both share that simple philosophy – whatever you’re doing enjoy it because if you don’t it can just eat you up.

That’s what happened to Stapleton first time round on the Tipperary senior hurling panel, when he was still a teenager.