Tipperary booked a semi-final spot against Cork in the Munster Minor Football Championship with a two-points winning margin over Limerick in their round robin play-off in Fermoy on Saturday. Waterford, the group winners, will meet Kerry.

Aided by a 22nd-minute goal from Padraig Whelan, Tipperary led 1-5 to 0-5 at the interval and survived an early second-half penalty when Owen Kennedy hit the woodwork. In a tight finish, the same player met with similar fate as the Tipperary hung on to advance.

Tipperary: P Breen; P O'Doherty, P King, C O'Meara; M Hartnett, D McKeogh, A Morrissey; T Maher, D O'Brien; E Hallinan (0-1), D Bryon, P O'Flaherty; P Whelan (1-2), S Ryan (0-2), P Lynch (0-3). Sub: D Peters (0-1) for Ryan.

Limerick: M Jones; P Ranihan, J McCarthy (0-1), A Lane; D McAuley, P Brown, P Russell; D Horan (0-1), K O'Connor (0-1); J Lyons (0-3), M Mulvihill (0-1), T Nolan; B Carroll, O Kennedy (0-2), M Carrig (0-1). Sub: D Murnane for O'Connor.

Referee: A Mangan (Kerry).