Bryan O'Mara hits reset button and eyes Tipp charge

Tipperary's Bryan O'Mara is relishing the prospect of a massive summer charge after putting the brakes on his senior hurling career to hit the "reset button".

Having helped UL to Fitzgibbon Cup glory, O'Mara opted out of the Premier set-up last year to spend the summer in America.

An All-Ireland winner at minor and U-21 level, O'Mara has long been tipped for big things on the senior stage. It's taken a little longer than anticipated, but he now looks ready to fire, shining in Tipp's 5-22 to 3-23 Munster SHC round-robin win against Clare last Sunday.

"The year out was great," he told RTÉ Sport at the launch of the FRS Recruitment GAA World Games.

"It was more of a reset button... just to be able to reset the mind gave me a fierce hunger to come back this year.

"It's been a lot of hard work so far, the championshp is after kicking off now, so now it's the enjoyable part.

"I'd a run of bad luck with injuries and then after Covid and stuff, I couldn't go anywhere. A lot of my friends were going on J1s and stuff and I thought, 'you know what? I'm just going to do it, I'll get to 30 and I'll regret never doing it'."

"It's just energy and hard work."

Tipp enjoyed a good Allianz Hurling League campaign, boasting a 100% record in Division 1B before giving Limerick a good game in the semi-finals.

It's helped to instil fresh confidence in Liam Cahill's charges, though O'Mara stresses there's nothing mysterious about their good form.

"There's no secret. There's no one thing that [the management[ bring - it's just energy and hard work. We're really enjoying it.

"Winning is a habit. We had a bit of success at underage level but that's a good few years ago now. We need to get that taste again and I feel like the league helped us to see that yes,