Cork ensured that they finished out their Electric Ireland Munster MHC round-robin campaign with a 100 percent record as they pushed on in the closing stages against Tipperary on Friday night.
It was a strange game at Páirc Uí Rinn. Cork could have lost by a fortune and still their place at the top of the table, and the Munster final spot that that brought could not be lost; equally, no Tipp win was going to be enough for them to leapfrog Limerick into fourth place and an extension to their championship campaign.
As things panned out, the formlines held largely true, though Tipp were in the game…