Ó hAilpín braced for Tipp backlash

There is just one rule Seán Óg Ó hAilpín applies to Cork-Tipperary matches: Worry about the wounded.

As a teenager, he witnessed how Cork dethroned the All-Ireland champions in a Munster final only to suffer the same fate to Tipperary at the same stage the next year.

Even if it did galvanise Tipperary towards the Liam MacCarthy Cup, Cork’s 2010 Munster quarter-final win over their neighbours came as quite the surprise. On the flipside, Tipperary’s 2007 qualifier win against the previous year’s All-Ireland runners-up was a turn-up for the books.