Tipp only fuelling the ill feeling

After he saved Kerry’s Division 1 bacon last month, Eamonn Fitzmaurice said he owed Paul Mannion a pint.

A bottle of Longford’s favourite tipple might be winging its way to Pearse Park from Kilkenny and Tipperary as they saved the two counties a whole lot of bother with last Sunday’s disciplinary issue.

The news that JJ Delaney and Lar Corbett’s bans are restricted to the league because of a loophole is certainly a let-off for the pair having faced missing out on their respective provincial openers against Offaly and Limerick on June 9 respectively.