Clare aiming to avenge senior defeat to Tipp in Munster U20 decider

Tipp’s senior victory at Ennis last Saturday evening - the county’s first in Munster in 748 days - has given the Premier County a pulse and, in the process, left Clare on the brink.

REVENGE: Clare's Diarmuid Stritch and Tipperary's Aaron O'Halloran in action. Pic: Eamon Ward

Three years ago this very week, the Tipperary minor hurlers provided the Premier with a desperately required lift.

After the seniors had lost their opening three games of the Munster round-robin by a combined total of 19 points, the minor class waded through the rampant negativity and fired a flare of hope into the pitch-black Limerick sky.