{"id":24068,"date":"2025-09-16T02:43:06","date_gmt":"2025-09-16T02:43:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/24068\/"},"modified":"2025-09-16T02:43:06","modified_gmt":"2025-09-16T02:43:06","slug":"shefflin-named-manager-of-kilkenny-under-20s","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/24068\/","title":{"rendered":"Shefflin named manager of Kilkenny Under-20s"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Kilkenny great Henry Shefflin has been confirmed as the new manager of the county&#8217;s Under-20 hurlers.<\/p>\n<p>The appointment of the ten-time All-Ireland winner was confirmed at a meeting of the Kilkenny county board, where it was also announced that Shefflin&#8217;s former team-mate Brian Hogan would also join the U20 management team as a coach and selector.<\/p>\n<p>Se\u00e1n Kelly (St Martin&#8217;s, head coach) Graigue Ballycallan&#8217;s Richie O\u2019Neill and Dicksboro&#8217;s James Gittens are also joining the backroom team.<\/p>\n<p>Shefflin comes in to replace Mark Dowling, who brought his three-year spell in charge of the U20s to an end in July, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rte.ie\/sport\/hurling\/2025\/0531\/1516074-tipperary-power-home-against-the-cats-in-u-20-decider\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">following defeat to Tipperary in the All-Ireland final<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The appointment of Shefflin marks the return of the 11-time All Star to inter-county hurling management, following a three-year spell in charge of the Galway senior team, which ended in July 2024.<\/p>\n<p>He had previously managed his club Ballyhale to consecutive All-Ireland SHC titles in 2019-20, and is back in charge of the Shamrocks this season.<\/p>\n<p>Shefflin has also worked on an analyst on RT\u00c9&#8217;s The Sunday Game since retiring as an inter-county player in 2015.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Kilkenny great Henry Shefflin has been confirmed as the new manager of the county&#8217;s Under-20 hurlers. The appointment&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":24069,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[42,43,40,38,41,39],"class_list":["post-24068","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24068","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24068"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24068\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/24069"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24068"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24068"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24068"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}