Colm Bonnar as good as pulled the shutters down on Tipperary’s All-Ireland challenge on Sunday afternoon.
Technically, they could still advance from Munster in third position but it’s a long shot that requires Cork and Clare to beat Waterford over the next two weekends and Tipp themselves to overcome Cork by a decent margin in their final group game on Sunday week.
“We came down here to win and we wanted to keep some hope alive in terms of the championship – we know now that’s gone beyond us,” acknowledged Bonnar after Sunday’s battling defeat to Limerick.
Three years after lifting the Liam MacCarthy Cup, the same year their U-20s retained the All-Ireland at that grade, this was not how things were meant to pan out.
The thing is, even with the Munster championship’s wooden spoon dangling above them after failing to pick up a single point, even afte …
- May 10, 2022
