Liam Sheedy: Keeping all the balls in the air

This morning, the chairman of the national hurling review forum will be out coaching Portroe’s Under 16 Camogie team, encouraging each and every player — his daughter included. "In this country, we knock too much," says Tipperary’s All-Ireland-winning coach Liam Sheedy.

It’s changed his life, winning that All-Ireland, but in other ways, so much about Liam Sheedy remains the same.

He’d hardly be sitting on the board of the Irish Sports Council, overseeing the funding of high performance sport, if he wasn’t on the right side of the scoreline on that stunning Sunday in September 2010. Yet he would maintain that he was already in the realm of high performance sport, managing the Tipperary senior hurlers, that that was the height those guys were operating at in those three years leading up to Lar’s three goals.