Limerick exit would be a sensation

Few if any All-Ireland champions were measured for coffins as much as Tipperary in 1992. Cork, letting their neighbours off the reel twice having been seven points up in the previous year’s drawn Munster final, had them sized up from a long way out. And goals from John Fitzgibbon and Tomás Mulcahy confirmed the retribution in Páirc Uí Chaoimh.

Fuelled by Canon O’Brien’s declaration before the game that Cork’s jersey represented the blood and bandages and Tipperary had “a big yellow streak” running through theirs, his players dumped Babs Keating’s side out of the Championship on June 7. There would be another two weeks of longer evenings but Tipperary were gone.