Tipp boss Babs fights back after Ryan criticism

TIPPERARY hurling boss Michael ‘Babs’ Keating has responded to stinging criticism of his management style by ex-Limerick manager Tom Ryan by describing Ryan as an “arsehole”.

Speaking to Seamus Martin on the Tipp Today programme on Tipp FM, Keating responded to Ryan’s comments earlier in the week by saying: “To me Tom Ryan is an arsehole and always has been an arsehole.”

In response to Martin’s suggestion that Keating was “over the hill”, the Tipp manager said: “That’s quite possible, but the thing about that is he’s saying that without having any idea what’s happening in Tipperary. John Leahy is a young man, so he’s saying John Leahy is over the hill. I work very closely with John and Tom Barry.