Tipperary firepower leaves Cork reeling

Tipperary 0-22 Cork 0-13: It was Darren Gleeson who rifled the first shot across the Cork bows yesterday.

Running out onto the pitch, the Tipperary keeper spanked a ball high towards the Killinan End into the middle of the opposition’s warm-up, where it almost hit substitute goalkeeper Patrick Collins to the disgruntlement of some Cork officials.

A statement of intent? Hardly. But where Tipperary kept with tradition and dashed out of their dressing room, Cork untypically strolled.