Clinical finishing proved the difference for Tipperary as they saw off a spirited Waterford effort in the final round of this year\u2019s Munster Minor Hurling Championship at Fraher Field.<\/p>\n
A brace from R\u00edan McGrath and another from Josh Moroney were decisive as the visitors claimed a fourth victory on the spin.<\/p>\n
Tipperary manager James Woodlock made eight changes from the team that beat Limerick, but their strength in depth was apparent throughout.<\/p>\n
Jack O\u2019Sullivan fired Waterford into an early lead but that was quickly cancelled out by John O\u2019Meara, before a golden goal chance was spurned by Rian McGrath.<\/p>\n
Dylan Murphy and Ollie Roche (2) then exchanged frees as the Premier edged in front, before an excellent catch and strike from Donncha Flannery had it 0-3 apiece.\u00a0<\/p>\n
A 65 from Murphy and a point from McGrath levelled matters for a fourth occasion, before Sean Burke and Dara Sullivan also got their names on the scoreboard.<\/p>\n
The game burst into life on 19 minutes, as great work from Conor Kennedy saw him tee up McGrath and the Kiladangan forward sent a rocket to the top left corner past Mikey Ware.\u00a0<\/p>\n
That was the start of an unanswered 1-4 from the visitors as two from the impressive Josh Moroney, alongside \u00c9anna Tucker and John O\u2019Meara efforts established a seven-point lead approaching the break.<\/p>\n
Mikey Moloney temporarily stopped the rot before Colm Ryan broke out of defence and found the target, but Waterford found a goal of their own in first-half added time, Butlerstown forward Cian Delaney showing great control and composure to bury a half-chance to the far corner. Moroney\u2019s third made it 1-11 to 1-6 in favour of Tipperary and finely poised at the interval.<\/p>\n
Another free from Roche resumed the scoring for the Premier, before a fine score by Emmet Walsh for Waterford. John O\u2019Meara\u2019s strike was responded to by Jack O\u2019Sullivan, Adam Cummins and a beauty from Delaney as the gap reduced to three.<\/p>\n
Murphy and Moroney were accurate from frees, before three successive wides and a misplayed pass when in on goal threatened to derail D\u00e9ise momentum. Roche and Murphy traded dead balls, before Delaney reduced arrears to two entering the final quarter.<\/p>\n
A third goal looked increasingly crucial and so it proved on 46 minutes, O\u2019Meara breaking free and squaring for McGrath to blast home his second green flag.<\/p>\n
Two Murphy frees kept Waterford within a goal, before Moroney and Delaney kept their tallies growing. Ollie Roche from play kept the lead at four with as many minutes left.<\/p>\n
A Murphy free had it back to three as three minutes added time were called, and as the D\u00e9ise committed men forward – who better than man-of-the-match Moroney to break through and fire a decisive fourth goal, to maintain Tipperary\u2019s 100% win record this season.<\/p>\n
\n Scorers for Waterford: C Delaney (1-4); D Murphy (0-7); D Flannery, D Sullivan, M Moloney, E Walsh, J O\u2019Sullivan and A Cummins (0-1 each).\u00a0Scorers for Tipperary: R McGrath (2-2); J Moroney (1-4; 0-2f); O Roche (0-5; 0-4f); J O\u2019Meara (0-3); S Burke, E Tucker and C Ryan (0-1 each).\u00a0<\/p>\n
\n Waterford: M Ware (Geraldines); L Fitzgerald (Passage), D Murphy (St Mary\u2019s East), D Sullivan (Abbeyside \/ Ballinacourty); J Walsh (Mount Sion), A Power (Ballygunner), E Walsh (Stradbally); S Coffey (Sliabh GCua \/ St Mary\u2019s), A Cummins (Lismore); C Delaney (Butlerstown), J O\u2019Sullivan (Ballygunner), M Moloney (Ballygunner); C Crowley (Ballygunner), D Murphy (Roanmore), D Flannery (Mount Sion).<\/p>\n
\n Subs: J Mullally (De La Salle) for Coffey (HT); R Molumphy (Ballyduff Upper) for Moroney (48); F Geoghegan (St. Molleran\u2019s) for O\u2019Sullivan (54).<\/p>\n
\n Tipperary: E Connolly (Carrick Swan); C O\u2019Mahony (Thurles Sarsfields), C Ryan (Newport), C Collins (Galtee Rovers St Pecaun\u2019s); C Gantley (Cappawhite), J Finn (Golden Kilfeacle), C Tobin (CJ Kickhams Mullinahone); B Roche (Kilsheelan Kilcash), E Tucker (Nenagh \u00c9ire \u00d3g); C Kennedy (Clonoulty Rossmore), J O\u2019Meara (CJ Kickhams Mullinahone), J Moroney (Ballina); O Roche (Newport), R McGrath (Kiladangan), S Burke (JK Brackens).<\/p>\n
\n Subs: KJ Dunne (Toomevara) for Kennedy (44); B Fuller (St. Mary\u2019s) for B Roche (48); A Norton (Gortnahoe Glengoole) for Tucker (49); O Pearl (Lattin Cullen) for McGrath (54); E Condon (St. Mary\u2019s) for Finn (57).<\/p>\n
\n Referee: N Fahy (Cork).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Clinical finishing proved the difference for Tipperary as they saw off a spirited Waterford effort in the final…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":439722,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[177329,5582,7026,42,43,40,38,41,39],"class_list":["post-439721","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-championship-2026","tag-tipperary-gaa","tag-waterford-gaa","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/439721","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=439721"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/439721\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/439722"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=439721"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=439721"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=439721"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}