Raising the bar in Tipp

There were only 780 people at the Tipperary SFC final and as most GAA fans from the Premier would tell you, “most of them were let in for free”.

It hasn’t been the chosen game in that neck of the woods for a long time but still, Clonmel Commercials have every chance of beating Kerry kingpins Dr Crokes in their home patch in Killarney tomorrow. Why?

Passion. The club has a grá for the big-ball game as deep and abiding as anything found in the Kingdom, a passion personified in Commercials’ club chairman Ned Brophy.