Tipperary minor football manager Charlie McKeever says he knew there was a big performance in his team.

The Premier County bounced back from their Munster final defeat to Kerry by defeating Connacht champions Galway in yesterday's All-Ireland quarter-final at Tullamore to seal a semi-final date with Kildare.

"We said all year that there was a strong performance in this team and we got it today," McKeever told The Irish Examiner afterwards. "It would have been disappointing if we'd gone through the year without performing to our potential, because they're a great group of lads, they've been together for so long and they've put in a huge amount of work along the way.

"People ask if it was hard to lift them after the Munster final, but it wasn't hard at all; the lads knew we'd underperformed. It would have been different if we'd put in a performance against Kerry, but we didn't. So we asked for one big performance from them today and we got it."

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