Tipperary - All Ireland Senior Camogie Championship semi-finalists. Back row: Cait Devane, Karin Blair, Mairead Eviston, Niamh Treacy, Róisín Howard, Caoimhe Maher, Celine Guinan, Casey Hennessy, Ellen Cunneen, Emma Carey, Clodagh Quirke, Mary Burke, Kate Ralph, Caoimhe Perdue, Sarah Madden, Eimear McGrath, Eimear Heffernan, Caoimhe Bourke. Front row: Nicole Walsh, Aoife McGrath, Aoife Dwyer, Niamh Costigan, Grace O’Brien, Eimear Loughman, Karen Kennedy (captain), Jean Kelly, Julieanne Bourke, Teresa Ryan, Caoimhe McCarthy, Mary Ryan, Ciardha Maher, Molly O’Dwyer, Clodagh McIntyre.Photos: Bridget Delaney

More Nowlan Park woe for Maher

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By Joe Scully

Tipperary vice-captain Caoimhe Maher couldn’t hide to hide her disappointment after a second semi-final defeat in a row, Tipp’s sixth in the last seven years.

“We are very disappointed,” she said.

“We came here to win; we left here twelve months ago thinking we couldn’t wait to be back and do ourselves justice but sadly it didn’t happen today.”

The Burgess/Duharra star felt her sides slow start wasn’t the reason they came up just short.

“We obviously haven’t had a game in three weeks, so a slow start was always going to be a possibility,” she added.

“However, we didn’t panic, and we knew the scores would come, that we were good enough to get them. I suppose we will have to look back at it and see where it went wrong, but I don’t think the start would have played into it, as there was plenty of hurling left in us for the rest of the game.”

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