Tipp focus now shifts to McIntyre and Bonnar

Tipperary could consider looking outside the county for their next senior hurling manager after Eamon O’Shea became the latest candidate to rule himself out for the position.

Like Nicky English and Liam Sheedy, the Kilruane McDonagh man has cited work commitments in NUI Galway as the reason for his unavailability.

Tipperary chairman Seán Nugent has stressed that the circumstances of one candidate might change but speculation in the county has now shifted to Galway and Offaly manager John McIntyre and ex-Wexford boss and Waterford selector Colm Bonnar.