Premier ready to rise again

ALL-IRELAND SFC ROUND 2A:

Tipperary football selector Michael O’Loughlin paints a most vivid picture of the county’s dressing room after their Munster semi-final defeat to Cork last month. That horrible feeling, he says, of knowing it had been left behind, resting uncomfortably on their shoulders.

The Premier County had travelled to Páirc Uí Chaoimh as virtual no-hopers, Division 1 residents colliding with a lesser force from the bottom tier. This would be no contest, or so went the general commentary before the fixture.