First-half goals set up Cork for hard-fought win

Cork 2-12 Tipperary 1-10: Relief was the chief emotion in the Cork camp in Ardfinnan at 3.30pm on Saturday after two first-half goals sent them on their way to a battling win over Tipperary.

“Brilliant,” Cork captain Ciara O’Sullivan said of the win.

“It’s a long build-up and a lot of nerves and anticipation, so it’s more of a relief I suppose than anything. We let ourselves down big-time last year in Munster so we’re just trying to right a few wrongs in terms of that this year.”