Bridging 128 years...twice: Church dream big in the Slieve Felim hills

Forget about county titles, Upperchurch are still waiting for their first senior divisional championship in either code.

HISTORY MAKER: Owen Shortt of the Upperchurch-Drombane management team is congratulated by Loughmore-Castleiney manager Frankie McGrath after the Tipperary County Senior Football Championship Semi-Final. Pic: Michael P Ryan/Sportsfile

Upperchurch-Drombane will be hoping Tipperary senior finals are like that old gag about the buses. You wait 128 years for one, then two come along at once.

Having dethroned dual trend-setters and county champions Loughmore-Castleiney to reach a first-ever football final, Kilruane MacDonaghs stand between Church and their first Tipperary hurling final since 1894.