'Our energy was terrible in the second half'
July 21, 2025
Cork manager Pat Ryan dejected ©INPHO/Ryan Byrne
Pat Ryan was making no excuses after Cork’s extraordinary second half collapse in the All-Ireland SHC final.
The hot favourites appeared to have one hand on the Liam MacCarthy Cup when they took a six-point lead into the interval, but were outscored by 3-14 to 0-2 after the restart as Tipperary claimed an emphatic victory.
“We just got outworked really, to be honest,” the crestfallen Cork manager told the media at Croke Park.
“They got great momentum behind themselves, got a few scores and got the crowd behind them. They got a couple of breaks of the ball with a couple of the goals they got and then obviously the sending-off.
“Look, credit to Tipperary. They came out and worked really, really hard. We were in a good position at half-time, but we got blown away in the second half.”
He conceded: “Our momentum and our energy was terrible in the second half. They had all the momentum, they had all the energy, they were the crowd that were working the hardest. That’s the disappointing thing from our point of view.
“Obviously it’s the second All-Ireland in-a-row that we’ve lost. Just really, really disappointed with that second half. We didn’t represent ourselves the way we should have represented ourselves.
"Credit to Tipperary. They came up and you could see that they had loads of momentum behind them and they had a lot of good players all over the place.”
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