Tipperary's focus on Limerick but eyes stray to summer optimism

Involvement in this summer’s Super 8s is an “optimistic goal” for the Tipperary footballers to harbour, says Conor Sweeney, but to get there, the Premier captain knows they’ll more than likely have to make a Munster final.

Tipperary, back in June of 2016, scored a first championship win over Cork since 1944 to bridge a 14-year gap to the county’s last provincial final appearance. And while the decider itself did not go as they planned, Liam Kearns’ charges capitalised on their subsequent bounce into the fourth round of qualifiers to wind up in the last four of the championship.