Liam Kearns reckons Cork won't be losing any sleep about their upcoming Munster SFC semi-final against Tipperary.

As expected, the Premier County proved too strong for Waterford at Fraher Field yesterday to set up a last-four joust with the Rebels on June 12, but Kearns says Tipp will need to show a vast improvement if they're to cause an upset.

"We got some good scores so I'd be happy with that side of it, but the intensity, work-rate and all of that won't do against Cork. We will have to find another level and we have only two weeks to do it," the Tipp manager said in the Irish Examiner.

"We'll hopefully be a bit stronger and the game will stand to us, but I'm sure Cork were in the stand watching. I doubt if they are quaking in their boots.

"What I want in two weeks is that we perform to our maximum levels and see where that takes us. I would put Cork in the top eight in the country still."

The Tralee man is planning for Cork without dual star Steven O'Brien, despite the fact that he wasn't part of the Tipperary hurlers' match-day squad against the Rebels yesterday week.

"He's still with the hurlers and, as far as I'm aware, he trained with the hurlers last Tuesday night. Until he's made available to the footballers, we can't use him."

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