{"id":538706,"date":"2026-07-08T05:45:15","date_gmt":"2026-07-08T05:45:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/538706\/"},"modified":"2026-07-08T05:45:15","modified_gmt":"2026-07-08T05:45:15","slug":"former-cat-ronan-backs-shefflin-to-lead-kilkenny-but-admits-group-of-doubters-remain","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/538706\/","title":{"rendered":"Former Cat Ronan backs Shefflin to lead Kilkenny but admits group of doubters remain"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Former Kilkenny forward Adrian Ronan says  <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.irishexaminer.com\/sport\/gaa\/arid-41875070.html\">Henry Shefflin is the right man<\/a> to lead the county while acknowledging his appointment won\u2019t be universally applauded in the county.<\/p>\n<p>Ronan knows there remains a group of people who disagreed with the 10-time All-Ireland winner\u2019s three years in charge of Galway, but he is very much of the mind that the Ballyhale Shamrocks man is the best placed to guide The Cats.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">\u201cThere is a cohort of people who will cast a bit of doubt because of his travels, not that that\u2019s a cohort of people I necessarily agree with,\u201d Ronan told  KCLR\u2019s hurling podcast. \u201cI\u2019m firmly in the camp that this is a good move for Kilkenny, a good move for Henry.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">\u201cIt\u2019s a transitional period in Kilkenny hurling. After the weekend, maybe all is not so bad with what Galway did to Cork. They did it to us in the league and the championship this year and they\u2019ve done it to Cork, so we have to recognise Galway as a very good team.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">\u201cKilkenny and Henry have a huge challenge because there is a transitional period here. There are probably a number of players who will maybe decide they have had enough, they may decide they want to travel, they maybe decide they have given enough to Kilkenny hurling.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">\u201cHenry might have big decisions to make and looking in from the outside will want to bring in a lot of fresh, new blood into the group and he\u2019s had some of that with the U20s in the last year. He knows hurling inside out, he knows club hurling inside out so it\u2019s a welcome appointment.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Former Kilkenny forward Adrian Ronan says Henry Shefflin is the right man to lead the county while acknowledging&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":538707,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[1965,1128,42,43,850,40,38,41,39],"class_list":["post-538706","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-hurling","tag-football","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-sport","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/538706","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=538706"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/538706\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/538707"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=538706"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=538706"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=538706"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}