{"id":626560,"date":"2026-09-16T16:00:10","date_gmt":"2026-09-16T16:00:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/626560\/"},"modified":"2026-09-16T16:00:10","modified_gmt":"2026-09-16T16:00:10","slug":"the-ins-and-outs-munster-hurling-backroom-teams-take-shape-for-2027","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/626560\/","title":{"rendered":"The ins and outs: Munster hurling backroom teams take shape for 2027"},"content":{"rendered":"

Further change. Further new faces and new ideals. Further departures.<\/p>\n

The various Munster hurling front of houses may be largely untouched, but the layers underneath have had a busy revolving door in recent weeks.<\/p>\n

Every challenger knows the folly of bringing again what proved insufficient in 2026, and so the provincial sidelines will carry revamped status next summer.<\/p>\n

Tipp\u2019s was the latest off-season announcement<\/a> on Monday night. 2027 will be season No. 5 of Liam Cahill at the Premier helm. Unsurprisingly, his backroom team went unchanged from a stunning third season into his fourth. Unsurprisingly, his backroom team is significantly changed going from a flat fourth season into his fifth.<\/p>\n

After a title defence that never left the runway, sideline churn was inevitable. GAA logic dictated such.<\/p>\n

After a title defence that never left the runway, Tipp aren\u2019t so much starting again as they are thinking afresh.<\/p>\n

It had already been confirmed that David Herity was returning to his native Kilkenny and Henry Shefflin\u2019s new set-up on Noreside. It was confirmed on Monday night that 2025 All-Ireland winning selectors Declan Laffan and TJ Ryan, along with strength and conditioning coach Angelo Walsh, are no longer part of the sideline make-up.<\/p>\n

With Cahill having been given a fresh three-year term in July, this next Premier chapter of his will centre on the construction of a panel that integrates the raft of underage talent the county has produced in recent years. The manager\u2019s radically redrawn backroom team reflects that reality.<\/p>\n

Among the many new additions is Aidan Stakelum, who served as coach and selector in Laois\u2019 Joe McDonagh Cup-winning campaign<\/a> this year. More pertinent to the Tipp cause he now joins as coach assistant is Stakelum\u2019s role in Thurles CBS\u2019 annual challenging of the Harty Cup, including the all-conquering sweep of Munster and All-Ireland honours<\/a> in 2025.<\/p>\n

The Holycross-Ballycahill clubman has worked with several of the decorated youngsters now attempting to graduate from the underage ranks. That familiarity can be a useful conduit in the coming weeks, months, and years.<\/p>\n

\u201c[Aidan\u2019s] record speaks for itself. He has a lot of underage success with a lot of these players that are coming through,\u201d Cahill told Clubber TV in July.<\/p>\n

\u201cMichael Bevans will continue to coach the team from a leading coach perspective. Mikey and I have worked together for quite some time and we’re really looking forward now to really going after this new conveyor belt of talent that’s coming through and integrating it into the senior set up.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n

\"DavidDavid Herity has departed the Tipperary backroom team to join his native Kilkenny. Pic: Brendan Moran\/Sportsfile<\/p>\n

Promoted from analyst to selector\/coaching support, Paul O\u2019Brien is another with deep experience of working with that bracket of players endeavouring to climb the last step into a senior inter-county dressing-room. The Crumlin clubman is a former Dublin U20 and DCU Fitzgibbon manager, the latter third-level institution representing his current posting as Head of Gaelic Games.<\/p>\n

Given the Tipp players\u2019 effusive praise for performance coach Cathal Sheridan in the wake of their 2025 final win over Cork, it will be interesting to watch the impact of Anne Marie Kennedy who now occupies this space. She previously worked with the Dublin footballers under Jim Gavin during their run to five consecutive All-Ireland titles.<\/p>\n

Tipp\u2019s fresh deck chairs, Stephen Molumphy succeeding<\/a> the somewhat short-lived tenure of Peter Queally in Waterford, and Cork\u2019s capture of Cian O\u2019Neill, while Ronan Curran and Gerry Hussey went in the other direction, account for the headline changes in three of Munster\u2019s five.<\/p>\n

That just leaves the champions and the challengers who went closest to them in knockout fare this summer.<\/p>\n

We know that John Kiely is continuing.<\/a> We do not know if the other two members of Limerick\u2019s holy trinity, Paul Kinnerk and Caroline Currid, will also go again.<\/p>\n

No backroom team confirmation accompanied last Friday\u2019s confirmation of season No.11 for Limerick boss Kiely.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s indescribable what she brings. She just has everything sorted. She makes our life so easy,\u201d Gear\u00f3id Hegarty said of Currid following their most recent acquisition of Liam MacCarthy.<\/p>\n

Speaking on Live95 earlier this week, former Limerick hurler James Ryan insisted it\u2019s Kinnerk who cannot be done without heading into 2027.<\/p>\n

\u201cYou can talk about your sports psychology, your strength and conditioning obviously comes into it big time, your nutritionist as well, but to be fair, the heavy load and the bulk of everything is the coaching. The technical and tactical side all that kind of thing, he sees them, he’s got relationships built up with all of them,\u201d said Ryan.<\/p>\n

Neighbours Clare are the sole Munster county yet to make any off-season announcement.<\/p>\n

The sense is of a much-changed player set-up in the Banner next year. Shane O\u2019Donnell has already retired. John Conlon\u2019s delayed exit from the Croke Park field following the semi-final loss to Limerick points him in the same direction. There could be others too.<\/p>\n

But what of Lohan\u2019s sideline? With two years remaining on his current term, and so many of his closest lieutenants in situ for three and four years now, will he too decide that fresh faces, ideas, and ideals are required for 2027.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Further change. Further new faces and new ideals. Further departures. The various Munster hurling front of houses may…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":626561,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[30041,1965,72371,5582,7026,1964,61,60,17406,112],"class_list":["post-626560","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-clare-gaa","tag-hurling","tag-munster-gaa","tag-tipperary-gaa","tag-waterford-gaa","tag-cork-gaa","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-limerick-gaa","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/626560","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=626560"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/626560\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/626561"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=626560"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=626560"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=626560"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}