McGrath setting the bar higher for Tipp

“Ah sure you just go up for the toss, maybe collect the auld cup if ye win,” so often that’s the clichéd response when you put the question of the captaincy to a GAA player.

Not Tipperary’s Shane McGrath. Oh sure, he’ll take the toss, gladly accept any trophy that’s going and would be especially glad to hoist the cup over his head after tomorrow’s Allianz HL final against Kilkenny in Nowlan Park.

For Shane, however, coming from Ballinahinch, a tiny club in the hurling-mad north of the county, there is so much more to being the Tipperary captain than that.