Noel McGrath says the league is quickly forgotten once the championship starts.

McGrath made his first championship start in 20 months as Tipperary got the better of Cork at Semple Stadium on Sunday and he points out that the result - which secures a semi-final date with Limerick - banished all memories of the Premier County's league quarter-final defeat at the hands of Clare:

"We were disappointed with the league but when championship comes it's a different story altogether," the Loughmore-Castleiney clubman told gaa.ie. "We were looking at the Cork game as a massive game and one in which we just wanted to get a result in. The conditions weren't easy for either side but we're just delighted to come out of it and move onto the Munster semi-final.

"We wanted to go as well as we could in the league but at the end of the day when championship comes around it's all forgotten about and you just want to get that going. The league, nobody will remember the league quarter-final at the end of the year. We just have to push on now and we're looking forward to the Limerick game already.

"We haven't thought anything about Limerick because we had Cork in our heads the whole time coming up to this game. We'll regroup and have four weeks to the Limerick game and in that time I'm sure we'll have a good look at them. It'll be another massive challenge.

"We've played Limerick the last few years and they've turned us over twice so it will be a serious challenge them coming to Thurles. It's another game for us to play and we're just delighted to be involved in big games like that."

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