Silly season for managers as counties shop around

LIAM SHEEDY’S two-year term as Tipperary senior hurling manager will officially begin this evening when the Kilruane McDonagh clubman is ratified at a meeting of the county board.

A selector with Michael Doyle in 2003, Sheedy guided the county minors to a first All-Ireland title in a decade in 2006 and will be assisted next season by Upperchurch-Drombane’s Michael Ryan and fellow clubmate Eamonn O’Shea.

Sheedy’s former minor selectors will make the step up to U21 level next year. Gerry Maguire, Martin Gleeson and Noel Russell all worked alongside Sheedy in 2006 while 1991 All-Ireland winning captain Declan Carr will act as manager.