Liam Sheedy

Liam Sheedy

Personal information
Irish name	Liam Ó Siodaigh
Sport	Hurling
Position	Left wing-back
Born	(1969-10-24) 24 October 1969 (age 55) Portroe, County Tipperary, Ireland
Height	5 ft 11 in (1.80 m)
Occupation	Bank of Ireland director[1]
Club(s)
Years	Club
	Portroe
Club titles
Tipperary titles	0
Colleges(s)
Years	College
1987-1991	Limerick Institute of Technology
College titles
Fitzgibbon titles	0
Inter-county(ies)*
Years	County	Apps (scores)
1989–2000	Tipperary	7 (0-00)
Inter-county titles
Munster titles	0
All-Irelands	0
NHL	1
All Stars	0
*Inter County team apps and scores correct as of 18:48, 10 January 2013.

Liam Sheedy (born 24 October 1969) is an Irish hurling manager and former player who was the manager of the Tipperary senior hurling team on two occasions.^[2]

Born in Portroe, County Tipperary, Sheedy enjoyed All-Ireland success as a schoolboy hurler before enjoying championship success at club level with Portroe. After beginning his inter-county career with the Tipperary minor team, he later enjoyed All-Ireland successes with the Tipperary under-21 and junior teams. Sheedy made his senior debut during the 1989-90 league, however, it would be 1997 before he became a regular member of the starting fifteen. During his brief senior career he won a National Hurling League medal in 1999.

Sheedy began his managerial career with the Tipperary intermediate team in 2002 and, after some success, he later guided the Tipperary minor team to the All-Ireland title in 2006. Having briefly served as a selector with the Tipperary senior team, he eventually took over as manager and secured the All-Ireland title in 2010. His other inter-county activity saw him act as an adviser to the Antrim and Offaly senior hurling teams. Sheedy also enjoyed successful tenures as manager, coach, selector and adviser with club sides Portroe, Newmarket-on-Fergus and Drom-Inch, while he secured an Interprovincial Championship as manager of Munster.

In between his two spells as Tipperary senior manager, Sheedy was chairman of the National Hurling 2020 Committee, served as a member of the Irish Sports Council and was active in the media, usually as an analyst with The Sunday Game.