A new chapter in Tipperary’s fairytale season

Tipperary 3-13 Galway 1-10: Tipperary. In an All-Ireland football semi-final.

It has such a wondrous, sepia-tinted feel to it. Eighty-one years have slipped by since that has happened and Ireland was still engulfed in the trauma of its revolutionary period when the county actually last won a game of championship football at HQ.

Only 29,251 paying punters clicked through turnstiles that bear little resemblance to those used by their predecessors all those generations ago, but this will be a day that will be treasured for decades to come by those who celebrated with abandon at the final whistle.