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Eamonn Corcoran interview

Tipperary Supporters Club Junior Member, Niamh Ryan of Nenagh Eire Óg, won a prize of an interview with stalwart

wing back Eamonn Corcoran.”

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Niamh Ryan. Nenagh Eire

How do you manage to play so well year after year?

The most important things are to go to every training session and to train hard and look after yourself.

Was it fair that Tipperary had to play on 6 Sundays in a row this

/^ear?

Every player in Tipperary was happy to play for 6 Sundays or morę in a row. Playing is better

than training sessions for a team.

Eamonn Corcoran prcsenting a Tipperary shirt to Niamh Ryan, with her sister Emma,

Liam Coman,

Naomh Jude. Dublin:

Why are you so good at sideline balls?

It s down to practice. A number of play-ers like Daragh Egan, Hugh Maloney, Diar-maid Fitzgerald and myself would go in 15 minutes early to the training session and practice on sideline cuts only for that time.

Do you think that many of the play-ers from the Tipperary Minor and under 16 teams which won Ali Ire-lands will make it to the Tipperary Senior Team?

Yes. I’d be very hopeful that a number of those players would become good senior players. Already this year Pa Bourke and Tom Stapleton have come through and I would expect others to do the same. Those teams have some great players such as Noel McGrath.

Frank Ryan. Cappawhite:

What do you expect from the new Tipperary Manager, Liam Sheedy?

I know Liam well as we work together for Bank of Ireland Lifetime. Liam is a very popular choice in Tipperary and I know how professional a manager he is. When Eoin Kelly and I carried the hurleys for the minors in 2006 we were very impressed with the approach that Liam had as a manager.