Liam Sheedy is back in senior management on a sporting as well as a business field.
Apart from being Provincial Director of Munster for Bank of Ireland and a Director of Sport Ireland, the 48-year-old will now have to find time to bring Tipperary back to the top of the hurling tree.
The hope in the Premier County is that as that was the place where he left them he will be able to find his way back.
Sheedy walked away one month after guiding them to the All Ireland title in 2010. That was their first since 2001 and special in that it prevented Kilkenny securing a first ever five in a row.
Tipp have won since in 2016, the last of the big beasts to lift the cup before the delight of first Galway, then Limerick in lifting the Liam McCarthy Cup.
He went off to build a career at Bank of Ireland when banking was not in the greatest of places but he emerged as one of those who was instrumental in guiding it back into the black.
He has been an intelligent and perceptive analyst on RTÉ, served as Chairman of the National Hurling 2020 Committee and as Chairman of the High-Performance Committee at Sport Ireland.
When the role of Director General of the GAA came up at the end of 2017 his was one of the most prominent names in the running before that went to Tom Ryan.
Now he’s going back to his roots. Aside from the All Ireland title in 2010 he won Minster in 2009 and the All Ireland Minor title in 2006.
Tipperary failed to make it out of the Munster Championship round robin last year, a setback which will have really stung.
In the modern era, only Babs Keating has won more than one All Ireland for the county.
Sheedy’s job now is to rewrite that particular history book.
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