Cork savour that winning feeling against Tipperary

After contrasting campaigns in Division 2 where Cork, briefly, flirted with relegation, while Tipperary challenged for promotion, expectation lay with the home side heading into Saturday’s Munster SFC semi-final.
Their cause, too, was more pronounced, Tipperary being the only county made to play two provincial championship gams on successive weekends. And yet, it was Ronan McCarthy’s troops who led their hosts on a merry dance for most of this one-sided Munster semi.