Corcoran: How Tipp recovered from lowest ebb

August 19, 2012. July 5, 2014. Seminal dates in Tipperary hurling.

Seminal shifts too, the first a low they hope will never be repeated; the second the recovery from it.

The stain of that 18-point defeat by Kilkenny 25 months ago has faded a little this year but it remains. The abjectness of the second half and that unfortunate first-half tactic of Lar Corbett following Tommy Walsh.