Kilkenny SHL: 'They talk about magic fairies' - Mulcahy offers insight into his new Tullaroan role
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Tullaroan won their opening match of the St Canice’s Credit Union Senior Hurling League against Danesfort last weekend
New Tullaroan senior hurling manager, Davy Mulcahy, has opened up for the first time since joining the North Kilkenny club.
“They’re just incredible people, they live for hurling and farming and that’s it like.”
The ex-League of Ireland soccer player, who made over 400 career appearances in the division, is highly regarded in coaching circles for his ‘man manager’ approach, so much so that new Kilkenny boss Henry Shefflin has called up Mulcahy to his senior management team for 2027.
But before the inter-county season re-emerges, his attention is firmly on Tullaroan, where he has teamed up with cousin Tommy Walsh on the coaching ticket.
“They (Tullaroan) took a massive gamble coming to someone like me but obviously they’ve seen and they know I’m a man manager,” Mulcahy commented after the club’s opening round win over Danesfort in the St Canice’s Credit Union SHL last Sunday. - MATCH REPORT HERE
“Anyone coming from the city always admires Tullaroan. There’s something just different out there.
“They talk about magic fairies up in the mountains and all that kind of stuff but there is something different about Tullaroan. It’s a tiny, little village but they keep producing these top class hurlers all the time, and it’s the same with Ballyhale, but you go out there immediately and you feel part of it. You feel like a Tullaroan man,” Mulcahy explained.
The James Stephens clubman also revealed what he has brought to the club so far, emphasising the importance of a strong relationship with the players.
“They’re (Tullaroan) looking for something different. Everybody talks about 15 on 15 but it’s a different game now. The movement, the plans and hopefully I can bring a lot of that to it as a standard from what I’m used to in the League of Ireland. I’m looking forward to that too.
“The whole idea when Tullaroan came looking for me was they wanted something different,” he continued.
“I always remember when I was a player, the best managers I had were player managers and I made sure I followed that rule and stuck with it. I think all the boys believe now in what I say to them.
“You have to know what they (the players) are doing outside the training ground,” the Tullaroan boss noted, stating, “once you know who the players are and what levels they’re at, that’s easy work with that.”
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