Cork manager Ephie Fitzgerald believes his side's poor first half showing cost them victory in last night's Munster MFC semi-final against Tipperary.

"The first half we didn't turn up at all. We took a risk in playing Peter Kelleher, not a lot of match practice, and we were under pressure in the middle of the field, gave them a good platform to attack us," he said.

"I thought the lads battled back as best they could but Tipp are a big, strong, well-organised side. We left ourselves too much to do in the end but all credit to Tipp too for that, they never left us get into a rhythm.

"I wasn't too happy with the ref, in the second half I felt there were a lot of dubious calls against us. That's not to take from them, they were the better team on the night, but definitely we were on the wrong end of a few poor decisions." Tweet

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