Tipp belatedly drawing home golden harvest

The legend of Tipperary’s historic All-Ireland minor football success has multiplied with time.

The evidence? Just look at what their defeated opponents have done since.

The 2011 Dublin minors, “the team that keeps on giving” as one fan dubbed them, has produced Ciaran Kilkenny, Jack McCaffrey, Paul Mannion, Cormac Costello, John Small and Eric Lowndes. Brian Fenton couldn’t even make the panel.