Tipperary win U21 title.

Bord Gáis Energy GAA All-Ireland U-20 Hurling Championship
TIPPERARY 5-17 CORK 1-18
By John Harrington at the LIT Gaelic Grounds -  www.gaa.ie
Tipperary were crowned All Ireland Champions as they defeated Cork in thrilling fashion in the Bord Gáis Energy All-Ireland U-20 Final in the LIT Gaelic Grounds this evening.
Four goals in the first eight minutes of the match ultimately decided the contest.
Cork fought valiantly in the second-half, but they’d left themselves too much of a mountain to overcome.
The goal-rush began just 19 seconds into the match.
Conor Bowe won a delivery in the left corner and did brilliantly to wriggle through two Cork tacklers before hand-passing to Billy Seymour who had drifted smartly into space.
The angle was tight, but Seymour finished cleverly, bouncing a low shot past the advancing Ger Collins.
Cork’s response to this early set-back would have encouraged their supporters as they hit three points in a row to draw level.
They were all really classy scores too from Brian Turnbull, Conor O’Callaghan and Daire Connery, so at that stage it looked like we were going to have another end to end tussle between two evenly matched teams like we did in the Munster Final.
The Tipp attack had other ideas though and struck three goals in as many minutes to leave the young Rebels shell-shocked.
The first of them was a thing of beauty as the strapping Seymour leaped high to win a Bryan O’Mara delivery before off-loading to the on-rushing Jake Morris who sliced through the Cork defence.
The Tipp senior could have gone for his own score but had the maturity to square the ball instead to the better placed Andrew Ormond who lashed it to the net.
Seymour then bagged his second after great work from the fleet-footed Jerome Cahill who ripped open the Cork defence after collecting a ball from Ormond.
That livewire Ormond then did brilliantly again to win possession after hooking Sean O’Leary Hayes’ attempted clearance and put through Cahill who once again showed the Cork cover defence a clean pair of heels before drilling the ball to the bottom corner.
It was a devastating scoring burst from Tipperary that summed up everthing good about Liam Cahill's team.
Daire Connery and Ryan Walsh did their best to inspire their Cork team-mates, but every time the Rebels clipped a point Tipp replied in kind.
Jake Morris joined the party by landing two classy points in a row, and by the half-time whistle blew Tipperary had a commanding 4-9 to 0-10 lead.
Cork needed to start the second-half strongly to put a seed of doubt in Tipp minds, but instead it was the Premier County who raced out of the traps as the bustling Seymour landed two points in quick succession.
Tipperary nearly scored a fifth goal when Cahill raced through again only to see his shot brilliantly saved by Ger Collins.
But when Morris clipped over another point seconds later to move Tipp 13 points ahead, it looked like they would skate to victory.
You can never be sure of anything in this grade though, and Cork briefly gave their supporters hope they might find a way to pull the match out of the fire.
Tommy O’Connell lashed a brilliant shot to the top corner of the Tipp net, and when Brian Turnbull then landed two frees in quick succession it was Cork who suddenly had all the momentum.
They came agonisingly close to two more goals too as Evan Sheehan’s shot was brilliantly saved by Tipperary goalkeeper Aaron Browne and then Sean Twomey’s shot whistled past the post.
Having survived those two scares, Tipp settled any jangling nerves when Morris landed a free and the supreme Seymour cut a sideline over the bar.
The Premier County then finished with a flourish when substitute Cathal Bourke raced through to fire home a fifth goal.
Scorers for Tipperary: Billy Seymour 2-5 (1 sideline), Jake Morris 0-8 (3f, 1’65), Andrew Ormond 1-2, Jerome Cahill 1-1, Cathal Bourke 1-0, Conor Bowe 0-1
Scorers for Cork: Brian Turnbull 0-8 (7f), Tommy O’Connell 1-2 (2 ’65), Ryan Walsh 0-2, Daire Connery 0-2 (1f), Shane O’Regan 0-1, Conor O’Callaghan 0-1, Robert Downey 0-1, Brian Roche 0-1.
TIPPERARY: Aaron Browne; Conor McCarthy, Eoghan Connolly, Craig Morgan; Niall Heffernan, Paddy Cadell, Bryan O’Mara; Ciaran Connolly, Jerome Cahill; Gearoid O’Connor, Jake Morris, Johnny Ryan; Andrew Ormond, Billy Seymour, Conor Bowe. Subs: Sean Hayes for Gearoid O’Connor (36), Kian O’Kelly for Andrew Ormond (49), Joe Fogarty for Conor Bowe (53), Cathal Bourke for Johnny Ryan (58), Michael Purcell for Ciaran Connolly (63)
CORK: Ger Collins; Conor O’Callaghan, James Keating, Eoin Roche; Ger Millerick, Sean O’Leary Hayes, Robert Downey; Ryan Walsh, Tommy O’Connell; Sean Twomey, Brian Roche, Daire Connery; Brian Turnbull, Shane O’Regan, Padraig Power. Subs: Evan Sheehan for Simon Kenefick (ht), Jamie Copps for James Keating (40), Barry Murphy for Daire Connery (41), Padraig Power for Ryan Walsh (54),
Ref: Liam Gordon (Galway)