Banagher may only be five miles from the Tipperary border, but it’s a rivalry that’s unfamiliar to Offaly’s Ben Conneely.
The fact that the counties are in different provinces means that their Championship meetings have been few, with all five coming since 2002 and none since 2014.
With Offaly having fallen from their All-Ireland winning heyday in the ‘80s and ‘90s, Tipp have won each of those but with the vagaries of the League and Offaly’s spells in Division 2A, meetings in the secondary competition have even been scarce in recent years, the last coming in 2017.
