Hurling management teams 2025: Plenty of change ahead of league season

DIVISION 1A

Clare

Manager: Brian Lohan

Year: Six

Notes: Lohan is back for the final year of his current term, but given last year's All-Ireland triumph don’t assume this will be his swansong.

There is some change in the backroom team though as they prepare for 2025.

Shane Hassett, who had been with the Banner for four years, has stepped away to focus on his studies.

Replacing him is former Galway star Rory Gantley who has worked with Limerick’s Kilmallock and Clare’s Tubber in the past.

Cork

Manager: Pat Ryan

Year: Three

Notes: Pat Ryan begins the third year of a three-year term with the obvious aim of going one step further than last year’s All-Ireland final loss to Clare.

The same management team remains in situ as they try and win something, the big asterisk against their obvious progress.

Experienced heads like Séamus Harnedy, who is understood to have taken a bit of time to decide, Patrick Horgan, Conor Lehane and Damian Cahalane are back on board - and the latter could be joined by his brother Jack after he quit the Cork football squad.

The Rebels will have a new captain in 2025 with Robert Downey taking over from Seán O'Donoghue.

Galway

Manager: Micheál Donoghue

Year: One

Notes: Micheál Donoghue has been handed real backing in Galway as his initial term is a four-year one having replaced Henry Shefflin.

It’s his second stint, of course, with the Tribe having guided them to the 2017 All-Ireland title and he’ll have Francis Forde, Noel Larkin and Eamon O’Shea along for the ride.

Forde and Larkin had worked with him when Donoghue was Dublin manager while O’Shea was added by Shefflin ahead of last season.

Kilkenny

Manager: Derek Lyng

Year: Three

Notes: Derek Lyng has made a few changes to his backroom team as the Cats try and claim