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24th May 2017
05:58pm BST

"Well, do you know what... no, it's not any good to me - I'm charged and the boys are charged with minding this bunch of Tipperary hurlers - but, at the end of the day, we'd much prefer to be involved in a really, really good game of hurling and a game that's played in the right way and in the right spirit and I think what was served up there was classic Munster championship at its best. "We're at the wrong side of it but I really thought Cork were good - really, really good - and were the better team on the day without a doubt."It was remarkably classy to stay so humble and composed after such a pulsating and ultimately heartbreaking affair.
"There were tell-tale signs - at one stage I thought, 'God, Cork are really, really good here today' and it wasn't quite sticking for us," Ryan said. "We did create a couple of openings and we would've loved to have gotten some big deposits out of those openings in the first half but, look, that's the game. "It was a really, really good game of hurling here in Thurles and I thought it was real Munster championship. I know this is your typical, throwaway comment but I thought it was a classic game of hurling and Cork were excellent."He did, however, take serious exception to Colm Parkinson asking about the county's media ban. Listen to the whole row from 32:50 below.
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