Tipperary crush Cork with second-half final masterclass
Tipperary are All-Ireland senior hurling champions for the first time since 2019 after a stunning comeback win over Cork in the first final meeting between the neighbours.
The Munster champions came in as hot favourites and were six points up at half-time but their record wait for Liam MacCarthy will extend to at least 21 years after the Premier devoured them in the second half.
John McGrath plundered two goals (taking his championship tally to 7-16) and the flawless Darragh McCarthy (1-13, 1-09fs) converted a penalty after Eoin Downey was shown a second yellow card for fouling McGrath.
It was 1-16 to 0-13 at the break but that was a scoreline embellished by Shane Barrett's superb goal just before the whistle.
Otherwise, it had been an even battle, but Tipperary hit nine wides to Cork's five.
Diarmuid Healy and Barrett bagged three points from play apiece as only Darragh McCarthy and Jake Morris managed more than one for the Premier.
But the second half was astonishingly one-way traffic.
Tipp hit 1-05 before Cork managed a point and another 2-05 before they managed their second, and last score of the game, in the 66th minute.
Tipperary's 29th title, surely one of the sweetest, takes them to within two of second-placed Cork on the honour roll.
For the Rebels, it's back-to-back All-Ireland defeats, and five since their last victory in 2005.
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