'We're very fortunate. It's a special place': Shefflin all too glad he went back to Ballyhale

DREAM TEAM: TJ Reid of Ballyhale Shamrocks and Henry Shefflin Ballyhale Shamrocks Manager celebrates. Pic: INPHO/James Lawlor

Never go back. That’s what they all say, right? Henry Shefflin won two Kilkenny titles, a pair of Leinsters and an All-Ireland double during his first stint in charge of Ballyhale Shamrocks. Hard to top that.

Now you’d wonder what he might do second time around having claimed a third county crown at the expense of O’Loughlin Gaels on Sunday afternoon. But hold that thought. If the natural impulse is to look ahead, then the man himself preferred to look back.