Former Tipperary star Padraic Maher has confirmed that work commitments were behind his decision to depart Liam Cahill’s backroom team.

Maher spent this past season as a selector with the Premier men but confirmed last month that he would be stepping down from his role.

Speaking to TippFM Sport this week, the two-time All-Ireland revealed the reason why.

“I really enjoyed my year in there and to be honest I would have loved to have stayed,” he said.

“It’s just the way things are going with my career with the Guards, I suppose it’s well publicised how the thing is a bit all over the shop at the moment so we are being pulled back a small bit in the next few months and going forward so I wouldn’t be able to commit 100% time-wise to Tipperary.

“As I said to Liam when I met him, I said ‘I love being involved, I love being involved in the management team, I love being involved with the players, it’s just whoever needs to be there, has to be able to do it 100% and I’m not able to give 100% next year’, so that’s why I took a step back.”

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