Liam Sheedy: I owed it to the boys of the 2010 All-Ireland winning Tipp team

Liam Sheedy has said he owed it to the survivors of the 2010 All-Ireland-winning Tipperary team to return as manager. Noel McGrath (28), Seamus Callanan (30), and the Mahers, Brendan (30), Pádraic (30), and Patrick (29) are the five members from the current set-up who were involved when Sheedy, during his first incarnation as Tipp boss, steered the Premier County to All-Ireland glory at the beginning of this decade.

A chief motivating factor in Sheedy returning for a second stint, eight years after he vacated the post, was the opportunity to again work with the aforementioned quintet before they called time on their inter-county days - players who, Sheedy claimed, “transformed” his life in 2010 by stopping Kilkenny’s drive for five and returning Tipperary to hurling’s summit.