Hickey on fire as Tipp master champions
Tipperary were well up for the contest with wing forward and former senior Benny Hickey scoring 1-8. However it was wings backs Paddy Dalton and Tommy Ryan who did most of the damage to a very porous Kerry defence.
In mitigation, 11 Kerry players had played with their clubs the previous evening but they also kicked 15 wides. Indeed the margin of victory could have been wider if Tipperary hadn’t been denied goals on three occasions with Kerry defenders effecting superb blocks.
