Liam Kearns: 'A semi-final? We’d have told you to lie down in a darkened room'

If you told Liam Kearns last November when he took on the job of Tipperary manager that he’d guide the county to a first All-Ireland semi-final since 1935 during his maiden season at the helm, he’d probably have laughed at you.

If you told Liam Kearns in the weeks following the departure of Colin O’Riordan, Seamus Kennedy, Steven O’Brien, Paddy Codd and Barry Grogan he’d guide the county to a first All-Ireland semi-final since 1935, he’d definitely have laughed at you.

And then, in his own words, he’d have instructed you to go “lie down in a dark room”.