Michael Quinlivan hopes Tipperary don't have to wait another 81 years for their next All-Ireland SFC semi-final appearance.

The Premier County acquited themselves extremely well against Mayo at Croke Park on Sunday and their ace attacker hopes they can now push on in the years to come:

"It always intrigues me how the Kilkenny hurlers keep coming back. You don't really understand it really until you play in a game like that yourself; how much it actually means and the experience itself," he tells The Irish Independent.

"It does stand to you as a person and a player. There's a lot of hurt in that dressing room after that game. Hopefully we can bottle that and come back. We have a Munster semi-final to look forward to in June, we want to get back to a Munster final as well so there's things to build on and hopefully we can do that next year.

"We have been making strides over the last few years and it's another step. I don't know how many other teams would be applauded off the field in Croke Park after losing by five points by both sets of supporters.

"We must be doing something right and maybe we are giving hope to a new generation of footballers that might come behind us and hopefully that's what we can do."

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