Premier boss Sheedy enjoying selection headache

THESE are difficult days for Tipperary manager Liam Sheedy, as the day of destiny, Sunday’s first-round Munster SHC match against Cork, draws ever closer.

Who to start, who to keep in reserve? Are the youngsters ready for a match as big as this? Despite being without a single competitive inter-county game under his belt yet this year, hampered with a back injury, is Eoin Kelly fit to go? Questions, questions, questions, all will be on Liam’s mind when he sits down this evening with fellow selectors Michael Ryan and Eamon O’Shea to finally choose the starting 15.

“Hugh (Maloney) unfortunately losses out because his suspension started four days after the league final; Shane Maher hasn’t a chance of making it at this stage, his hamstring is just going to need more time; Conor (O’Mahony) and Eoin (Kelly), I’d be hopeful that they’d be available to us – the level of work they are doing is coming up and up, but you’d worry about match practise, they haven’t really seen the pitch over the last number of weeks and months.”