Tipp manager Lillis: 'We’re as far as we were last year. The plan is to progress that one step further'

Niamh Lillis did not begin the year as Tipperary manager but she was a key member of Bill Mullaney’s backroom staff so there was no way the ambition would alter when she took over the hot seat after Mullaney stood down for health reasons early in the Liberty Insurance All-Ireland Senior Camogie Championship.

Anyway, as a multiple All-Ireland winner herself, the notion of getting her kicks from moral victories would sicken the nurse from Drom & Inch.