Underage rivals Offaly and Tipperary set to meet again in sell-out U20 finale 

“We started the Munster final with 13 underage again next year, Offaly will probably be in the same boat. It just goes to show in hurling that it is not about big physicality and strength,” remarked Tipp manager Brendan Cummins.

TIPP TOP: Tipperary manager Brendan Cummins during the oneills.com Munster GAA U20 Hurling Championship final match between Tipperary and Cork at TUS Gaelic Grounds in Limerick. Photo by Ben McShane/Sportsfile

The rematch has come 12 months early.

It wasn’t supposed to be until next June that the U20 hurlers of Offaly and Tipperary would reacquaint themselves with one another and reprise an underage rivalry that hangs on one barnburning and heartbreaking hour of hurling.