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Minors do us proud in Ennis
Tuesday, June 30, 2009
I WAS unable to make the trek to Ennis last Wednesday night, but two good hurling judges who did tell me of a stirring performance by our Under 18s whose 3-9 to 0-12 defeat of the Banner ensured our presence on centre stage on Munster final day.
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Munster Final here we come
Tuesday, June 23, 2009
WHAT better way to banish the ghosts of that horror drawn game six days earlier than by returning to Semple Stadium last Saturday and turning in a display of vintage quality to end the provincial title dream of Limerick for another season at least.
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Decies lucky to survive
Tuesday, June 16, 2009
I’VE BEEN racking my brain to try and recall a worse Munster senior hurling championship semi-final than the one that drove more than 25,000 of us to the brink of boredom in sometimes monsoon conditions in Semple Stadium last Sunday.
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Moment of hurling truth at hand
Tuesday, June 09, 2009
THE days, weeks, and months of waiting are over. Well almost.
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Hurlers played Dubs in Semple
Tuesday, June 02, 2009
PREPARATIONS for our Munster senior hurling championship semi-final showdown with Justin’s Limerick on Sunday week are continuing apace, and reports from the camp suggest that things are going as well as we would all want them to be.
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Double defeat Déise’s lot at hands of Cork
Tuesday, May 26, 2009
NO JOY of any sort for our senior and junior footballers at Fraher Field last Sunday with both sides crashing out to the Rebels in their respective first round Munster championship games.
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Hurling preparations intensify
Tuesday, May 19, 2009
THE Munster senior hurling campaign should get off to the proverbial flyer on Sunday week when Cork and Tipp - -the game’s oldest rivals - -meet in first round combat at Semple Stadium with Clare awaiting the winners in a June 21st semi-final.
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A special occasion for the GAA - and for Lismore Castle
Tuesday, May 12, 2009
LISMORE CASTLE, Irish home of the Duke and Duchess of Devonshire, is hardly a venue you would associate with the GAA.
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Fourmile must be the unluckiest team around
Wednesday, May 06, 2009
TWO games, two defeats, and already elimination from the senior hurling championship staring them starkly in the face.
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Senior championship up and away but with no real shocks
Tuesday, April 28, 2009
THE nearest we came to a major upset in the first round county senior hurling championship games played last weekend was in the Abbeyside/Stradbally tie at Fraher Field on Sunday with last year’s finalists being pushed to the very limit by “Brick’’ Walsh and his men.
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Mini injury crisis in Déise camp
Tuesday, April 21, 2009
Lest you haven’t given it a great deal of thought just yet, our Munster senior hurling championship semi-final against Limerick - - managed by a certain Justin McCarthy (as if you didn’t know!!) - -is less than eight weeks distant.
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Footballers denied promotion - again
Tuesday, April 14, 2009
THE heartbreak for the county senior footballers in missing out on Division Four National League promotion for a second successive year isn’t easy to take.
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Championship rehearsal goes Limerick’s way
Tuesday, April 07, 2009
I DON’T suppose that we can, or should, attach too great a measure of significance to last Sunday’s National Hurling League result at the Gaelic Grounds in terms of what may or may not happen when we renew rivalry with Limerick in the Munster championship semi-final in Semple Stadium on June 14th.
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Time to be concerned for hurlers
Tuesday, March 31, 2009
YES, its is ONLY the league, and our failure to win it is no big deal. But with that out of the way, is it not time to get real and to face up to the fact that our two most recent league outings have seen the hurling team all but plummet the depths of mediocrity - and worse.
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De La Salle will bounce back
Tuesday, March 24, 2009
I JUST hope that by now the disappointment of that St. Patrick’s Day All-Ireland final defeat has evaporated from De La Salle’s system, and that our county and Munster champions are gathering forces to renew their assault on still further championship glory on the domestic front in the year ahead.
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Dubs a deadly dangerous foe
Thursday, March 19, 2009
I’M as near enough to certain as makes no difference that with the publication of the National Hurling League fixtures list all those months ago our game against Dublin in Parnell Park was pencilled in by most of us as a probable “two pointer’’.
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De La Salle ready and eager for the fray
Tuesday, March 10, 2009
JUST one week to go, and already the buzz countywide is building as the men from De La Salle prepare to put the finishing touches to their preparations for what will be the biggest day in the proud and illustrious history of the club.
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A Déise victory to savour over Cats
Wednesday, March 04, 2009
NO, the ghosts of September Sunday in Croker weren’t all exorcised at Walsh Park last Sunday, but don’t try telling me that this 2-17 to 1-16 National League victory against the All-Ireland champions wasn’t laced thick with satisfaction.
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Champion Cats come to town
Tuesday, February 24, 2009
THE memories of “THAT’’ September Sunday are still haunting. A day and date when our dreams of All-Ireland glory were crushed, and ultimately buried, by the rampaging Cats of Kilkenny.
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A win that whets the appetite
Wednesday, February 18, 2009
TALK about taking a challenge head on and doing the business - -in resplendent style!!
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Tipp gain some NHL revenge
Wednesday, February 11, 2009
A LOSING start by our hurlers last Sunday to what is certain to be a tough and testing National League campaign.
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Testing league opener against champions
Tuesday, February 03, 2009
THE first of the serious business of the new hurling year is at hand with the visit to Walsh Park next Sunday by Tipperary in what will be the opening defence of their National League title.
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De La Salle’s Harty reign ends
Wednesday, January 28, 2009
THE last two colleges hurling seasons will always be remembered in a very special way by De La Salle. Harty Cup champions in successive years, with two All-Ireland titles thrown in for good measure. In some ways it’s the stuff that fairytale is made of.
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St. Molleran’s star as Tipp win through
Tuesday, January 20, 2009
LAST WEDNESDAYwas one of those nights that you wouldn’t put the dog out. All day the rain cascaded relentlessly down leaving the St. Mollerans club grounds in Carrckbeg in a severely waterlogged state.
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2009 all set to be the most open County SHC
Tuesday, January 13, 2009
RIGHT NOWjust about the last thing on the minds of the De La Salle senior hurlers is the upcoming county championship campaign and that defence of a title they won so historically for the first time just a few short months ago.
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Up and winning
Tuesday, January 06, 2009
A CRISP winter’s day in Ardmore last Sunday, and a very fine turnout of fans for the first competitive game of 2009 for the senior hurlers who engaged UCC in the first round of the Waterford Crystal tournament.
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To whom will the captaincy fall?
Friday, January 02, 2009
NO DECISION yet to report about who will captain the county senior hurlers for the 2009 league and championship campaigns.
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Tough challenges lie ahead for Déise’s hurlers in ‘09
Tuesday, December 23, 2008
IT’S reflection time on the one hand as 2008 ebbs towards its end, and time also to look ahead in an attempt to crystal ball what might be in store for our county on the hurling and football fields of Ireland in the upcoming year.
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Nire reign supreme in replay
Tuesday, December 16, 2008
It may not have quite matched the splen-dour and excitement of the drawn game a week earlier, but all credit to the Nire and Ballinacourty for serving up what was still a riveting county senior football championship final replay at a bitingly cold Fraher Field last Sunday.
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Champions strike late to secure final replay
Tuesday, December 09, 2008
I KNOW that the Nire are probably still kicking themselves to have conceded that Patrick Hurney equaliser in the dying seconds, but over the entirety of last Sunday’s county senior football final at Fraher Field the 0-11 to 2-5 draw was the most fitting result and one that champions Ballinacourty very definitely deserved.
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Salle on brink of provincial glory
Friday, November 28, 2008
THE hurling folk of our county will be united as one in support of De La Salle on Sunday as they make the trek to famed Semple Stadium in their quest to be crowned champions of Munster at the very first time of trying.
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MagnificentDeLaSalleintoshowpiece
Friday, November 21, 2008
WHAT can I say that would be a fitting tribute to De La Salle’s heroism on 0Leeside last Sunday?
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Salle’s title in survival of the fittest county final
Friday, November 14, 2008
HISTORY at Fraher Field last Sunday when De La Salle finally made the breakthrough they’ve been threatening for so long with a two point victory over Abbeyside to lift the News and Star Cup as county senior hurling champions for the very first time.
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Two more football quarters up for grabs
Friday, November 07, 2008
BARRING draws——heaven forbid as we head into the depths of winter—-three of the county senior football championship semifinalists will be known on Saturday evening after the Nire and Ardmore have done battle at Cappoquin with Brickey Rangers and Clashmore going head to head at the Ardmore venue with both games having a 2.30 start.
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Place in senior ranks the prize at stake
Friday, November 07, 2008
IT’S a big, big, weekend on the hurling front with the intermediate and senior county finals on successive days at Fraher Field.
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County final classic on the cards
Friday, November 07, 2008
THAT senior hurling semi-final replay last Sunday was all that we had expected of it, with Abbeyside eventually overpowering the champions Ballyduff Upper to advance to next Sunday’s Fraher Field decider against De La Salle.
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Davy’s “new talent search”to unearth new recruits
Friday, October 31, 2008
NOW that Davy Fitz has been installed at our managerial helm under a new two year contract, and with just one game to go before the county senior hurling championship is completed—— always barring a draw of course in Sunday’s decider——the man from the Banner will be casting his net far and wide in the coming months in a concerted bid to unearth new recruits onto the panel for the upcoming 2009 league and championship campaigns.
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Dungarvan survive relegation at Fraher Field ... just!
Friday, October 31, 2008
WHO would have ever thought that Dungarvan would come within a whisker of being relegated from intermediate to junior hurling after impressively winning back to back divisional intermediate titles in 2006 and 2007?
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More of the same please!
Friday, October 31, 2008
EXPECT an even bigger Fraher Field attendance next Sunday when champions Ballyduff Upper and challengers Abbeyside renew rivalry ina county senior hurling championship semi-final replay that means a delayed November 9th date for the decider.
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One Déise All-Star a poor return
Friday, October 24, 2008
WHILE the regrettable internet leak that robbed us all of much of the excitement and sense of anticipation that would otherwise have preceded last Friday night’s announcement of the All Star hurling team, at least it had us fitted out for the disappointment of the non selection in the fifteen of De La Salle’s John Mullane.
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Time for Fitzy to make his intentions known
Friday, October 10, 2008
JUSTIN McCarthy’s return to the managerial big time with Limerick has only increased the focus on his Waterford successor, Davy Fitagerald, as the man from the Banner continues to keep us all guessing in relation to his intentions for the coming year.
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No major surprises in SFC
Friday, October 03, 2008
With the possible exception of St. Saviour’s victory over Brickey Rangers, nothing more than mild surprise, it was pretty much as expected in all of the other weekend games in the county senior football championship.
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Sion’s defeat is shock of the weekend
Friday, September 26, 2008
IT was always on the cards that at least one of the six county senior hurling championship ties penciled in for last weekend would throw up a surprise...or two.
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Fitzy - will he or won’t he?
Friday, September 19, 2008
Dublin’s GAA top brass are saying “no’’ - - emphatical-ly, but the rumour machine is continuing in overdrive regarding the future of Davy Fitzgerald who guided our county to its first All-Ireland senior hurling final in four and a half decades after a mere three months at the managerial helm.
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County at a loss to explain Croker disaster
Friday, September 12, 2008
WILL someone out there rationally explain for me what, and why, things went so horribly wrong before 82,000 Croke Park fans last Sunday in what ultimately became one of the most one sided All-Ireland hurling finals in history?
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A county waits in expectation
Friday, September 05, 2008
THEatmosphere in the build up to Sunday’s mouth-watering All-Ireland hurling final has been electric. The banter too has been brilliant, and the craic mighty.
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Forty-five years of disappointment wiped away
Friday, August 22, 2008
HAS there ever been a better All-Ireland hurling semi-final than last Sunday’s Croke Park classic in which almost 54,000 fans revelled in every exhilarating minute?
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The time is now to end semi-final heartbreak
Friday, August 15, 2008
FUNNY old game this hurling. Less than eleven weeks ago we were in the depths of despair, stripped of our Munster championship title by Clare and on the end of an almost humiliating hiding.
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Semi-final preparations continue
Friday, August 08, 2008
LITTLE more than a week and a half to go to what, in essence, is our hurling date with destiny.
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Wexford dismissed but only just
Friday, August 01, 2008
THEY don’t come more tight, tense, and thrilling than last Sunday’s epic All-Ireland hurling quarter final at Semple Stadium.
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Majestic Kelly leads Déise into final six
Friday, July 25, 2008
ENIGMATIC he can be, but when Eoin Kelly is in the kind of form that blew Offaly away in Semple Stadium last Saturday evening then he is all but irrepressible.
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Good reason to be wary of ‘Faithful’
Friday, July 18, 2008
THE general perception out there is that we enjoyed the “luck of the draw’’ last Sunday evening when we were paired with Offaly for Saturday’s “winner take all’’ hurling qualifier.
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Browne injury damper on Antrim win
Friday, July 11, 2008
IN reality there could have been but one result from Walsh Park last Saturday, and it was duly delivered by our fellows who romped to a twenty one point All-Ireland hurling qualifier victory over gallant but hapless Antrim.
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Déise must beat champs on own patch
Friday, July 04, 2008
The county senior footballers have been handed a tough Tommy Murphy cup draw against reigning champions, Mick O’Dwyers’ Wicklow in Aughrim on July 19.
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Welcome to the new Fitzy era for Waterford hurling
Friday, June 20, 2008
ONE thing’s for sure - all credit to him for that - County Board chairman Pat Flynn wasted no time in going in search of a new seniorhurlingmanageroncethe resignation of Justin McCarthy had been confirmed.
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End of the McCarthy era - but what for us now?
Friday, June 13, 2008
HAS there ever been a week quite like the last one in the history of Deise gaeldom? There may well have been, but my memory certainly isn’t up to the task of recalling it.
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Banner rule supreme in Limerick sunshine
Friday, June 06, 2008
JUST where to start in trying to analyse the disastrous events of Sunday last at the Gaelic Grounds is the biggest problem.
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A game fraught with danger
Friday, May 30, 2008
When the Munster senior hurling championship draw was made way back last October our first round joust with Clare was widely acknowledged as a “handy’’ one.
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Just what the doctor ordered for hurlers
Friday, May 23, 2008
GIVEN the horrendous injury situation that is bedevilling our senior hurling camp right now, that tremendous three point victory over the All-Ireland champions at Walsh Park last Sunday night was exactly what the doctor would have ordered.
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From Cork to Portugal to Walsh Park
Friday, May 16, 2008
THE county’s senior hurlers are well into their training camp by now, and are no doubt soaking up the Algarve sunshine.
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Eoin Kelly in a race against time
Friday, May 02, 2008
IT CERTAINLY was a week and a weekend of incredible highs and equally depressing lows on the Deise GAA front.
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Classic colleges final ends level
Friday, April 18, 2008
I DOUBT if there has ever been an All-Ireland Colleges “A’’ hurling final to match the splendour and the nerve jangling tension of last Saturday’s Nolan Park decider between defending champions De La Salle and their Dr. Harty Cup victims of two months earlier, Thurles CBS.
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Super win for footballers in Carlow
Friday, April 11, 2008
ITwasn’t all gloom and doom on the National League front for the county last Sunday.
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Cracker with Rebels sets Déise up for Tipp date
Friday, April 04, 2008
NO major damage done as a consequence of that one point defeat to Cork at Walsh Park last Sunday, other of course than the inevitable disappointment that such results bring.
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Mission accomplished for Déise hurlers as quarters beckon next
Friday, March 28, 2008
IT was the case of mission accomplished at Walsh Park last Sunday with that 3-18 to 1-17 victory over the Dubs booking us our place in the National Hurling League quarter final on Sunday week.
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Cats very much with their tails up
Friday, March 21, 2008
NO JOY on Noreside last Sunday, with pride dented in a 0-25 to 0-14 National Hurling League defeat by the champion Cats.
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Clash of champions at Nowlan Park
Friday, March 14, 2008
SAFE to say that tension and excitement were not on the Fraher Field menu last Sunday when Sambo McNaughton’s hurling men came to town.
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Déise footballers on a roll
Friday, March 07, 2008
When did it last happen? The question was posed at Fraher Field after last Sunday’s stirring six point victory over the Banner but I for one could not provide the answer.
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Croker powers make correct Cork call
Friday, February 29, 2008
THE decision from “on high’’ to dock the National Hurling and Football League points from Cork as a consequence of their failure to fulfil the fixtures against Kilkenny, ourselves, the Dubs, and Meath was entirely the correct and appropriate one.
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Forced to find a new date for Rebels
Friday, February 22, 2008
NO major surprise, I suppose, that our National Hurling League game against the striking Rebels went by the boards last Sunday.
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Raring to go for league defence
Friday, February 08, 2008
IT hasn’t happened for the bones of four a half decades, the commencement of a National Hurling League campaign with Waterford as the defending champions.
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Hurney’s loss a big blow to club and county’s ‘08 hopes
Friday, February 01, 2008
ABBEYSIDE/Ballinacourty must plan for life and living in the coming year without one of their true heroes of their momentous 2007 championship season.
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Ahearne back at the Stradbally helm
Friday, January 25, 2008
YOU speak of the Stradbally club and Sean Ahearne in the same breath - - they are an integral part of each other.
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Relaxed, refreshed and ready to go
Friday, January 18, 2008
THE holiday to Florida was all that anyone could ever have hoped for, and if the reports that have been filtering through are even half accurate then every member of our senior hurling party had the proverbial whale of a time in the sunshine state.
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Winning New Year start for hurlers
Friday, January 11, 2008
JUST as the doctor would have ordered at the magnificently appointed St. Mollerans venue in Carrickbeg last Wednesday night.
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‘Brick’ to lead hurlers again
Friday, January 04, 2008
As the county senior hurlers prepare to head to the sunshine state of Florida for their well deserved holiday break, there’s confirmation of the reappointment of Michael “Brick’’ Walsh as captain in 2008.
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Well-deserved holiday break for hurlers
Friday, December 28, 2007
THE turkey will scarcely have been fully digested when our county senior hurlers will be boarding a plane taking them for a seven day holiday break in the sunshine site of Florida.
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Flynn makes superb chairman’s address
Friday, December 21, 2007
FOR ME one of the highlights of convention was the address of county chairman Pat Flynn, in a word it was - -superb, and was given the reception it fully deserved by the 160 delegates.
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Seamus Grant bids farewell after brilliant career
Saturday, December 15, 2007
ONE matter more than any other will dominate Friday night’s county convention in Dungarvan.
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All systems go for ‘Courty
Friday, December 07, 2007
It’s a return to the scene of their great-est ever triumph for Ballinacourty on Sunday - -Killarney’s Fitzgerald Stadium - -and another David versus Goliath showdown, this time with mighty Nemo Rangers, in the Munster club football championship final.
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Passage hurlers back where they belong
Saturday, December 01, 2007
THEY are a very proud lot down Passage East way when it comes to the game of hurling, and that was reflected in the post match jubilation of manager Seamas Keating at Walsh Park last Saturday when he attempted to measure in words what their 2-16 to 1-13 victory over Dungarvan in the intermediate county final meant to everyone in the club.
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Courty face tough test in Kingdom
Friday, November 23, 2007
TAKING on a Kerry team in a Munster football championship game is a mighty assignment at the best of times. Having to do so in their own back yard is even more so.
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Passage favoured for senior return
Friday, November 23, 2007
ALTHOUGH they didn’t exactly set the Walsh Park scene alight last Saturday when squeezing our a one point Eastern final victory against Portlaw, red hot favouritism will rest with Passage East they when they take on the West’s best, Dungarvan, in the county inter-mediate hurling decider at the same venue this Saturday(2.30).
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‘Courty’s twenty-six year famine ends
Friday, November 16, 2007
HARD earned, but richly deserved nonetheless. For the first time since 1981 and only the fourth in all, Ballinacourty are back on top of the senior football pile following their 3-4 to 1-7 victory over Ardmore at Fraher Field last Sunday.
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The West’s awake with county double
Friday, November 09, 2007
THIRTY five or so years ago Ballyduff and Ballysaggart were a group side involved in the county senior hurling championship while retaining their own separate club identities.
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Déise’s famous All-Star five
Thursday, October 25, 2007
BETTER even than we could have expected. But deserved, richly deserved, nonetheless.
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Crunch time in senior football race
Friday, October 19, 2007
With Ardmore safely through to the penultimate round of the senior football championship following last Saturday’s victory over Brickey Rangers, the remaining three semi-final places will be filled this weekend - -barring dreaded draws of course.
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Champions survive as SHC picture becomes clearer
Friday, October 12, 2007
A WEEKENDof frenetic hurling action cleared the decks to some extent and confirmed that there will be a West division participation in the county senior championship final which has now been put back by one week from October 28th to November 4th.
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Greener’s challenge of a lifetime
Friday, October 05, 2007
JIM Greene’s appointment as the new Carlow senior hurling manager has certainly come as a surprise to most Deise people.
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Shock result gives Rathgormack hope
Friday, September 28, 2007
A SHOCK result in many ways at Fraher Field last Saturday as Rathgormack, even without the injured Franny Halpin, dished out a 0-14 to 2-5 defeat to hitherto unbeaten Ardmore in the senior football championship.
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It looks odds on the status quo
Friday, September 21, 2007
LESS than three weeks to go and we will then know for certain who it is that will be at the managerial hurling helm for the league and championship campaigns of 2008.
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The All-Ireland heartbreak continues
Friday, August 31, 2007
OUR inter county championship year is over, the end coming at Nowlan Park last Saturday evening with the deeply disappointing defeat of the intermediate hurlers against Wexford in an All-Ireland final that never quite measured up to expectation.
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Intermediates go in search of glory
Friday, August 24, 2007
OVERSHADOWED, until now, by the heroics of the seniors, our intermediate hurlers take centre stage this weekend as they bid for an historic first All-Ireland title triumph in the grade.
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The day the Déise dream died for yet another year
Friday, August 17, 2007
It all began as a day of high expectation. A day when the senior hurlers were all set to deliver the county a place in the All-Ireland final for the first time in forty four years.
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Hurling days don’t get better than this
Friday, August 10, 2007
ANOTHER day of high drama and nail biting tension at Croke Park last Sunday as Waterford and Cork locked horns once more in an All-Ireland hurling quarter final replay that provided another quite magnificent sporting spectacle.
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Another memorable journey to Croke Park awaits
Friday, July 27, 2007
JUST as in life itself, we don’t have a clue about what lies round the sporting corner.
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Heroic U-21s emulate seniors
Friday, July 20, 2007
Another gloriously proud and uplifting night for Waterford hurling at the Gaelic Grounds last Wednesday.
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Frenzied finale fells Limerick
Thursday, July 12, 2007
LIKE a train out of control our hurling heroes hurtled themselves at gallant and courageous Limerick as a tight and tense Munster hurling final drew to a close at Semple Stadium last Sunday.
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Absorbing Munster showpiece in prospect
Thursday, July 05, 2007
NO Cork this time. No Tipperary either. Yet hurling fans throughout the Southern province await Sunday’s provincial hurling decider with a sense of expectation and anticipation the likes of which hasn’t been known or experienced in a generation and more.
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Déise scare as Shane Walsh hospitalised
Thursday, June 28, 2007
THERE was a major scare within the county senior hurling training camp last Saturday when Fourmilewater’s Shane Walsh was seen to crumble to the ground and as a precautionary measure he was removed to Waterford Regional Hospital.
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Déise on right side of another epic
Friday, June 22, 2007
ANOTHER classic. Another spellbinding game in the unfolding Waterford/Cork hurling saga that will be recalled and remembered when the dust has long settled on Semple Stadium last Sunday.
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Under 21’s enjoy stroll in the park
Friday, June 15, 2007
JUST three days after the Kerry senior footballers inflicted a crashing championship defeat on our fellows at Fraher Field, the same Old Boro venue was again the scene another massacre involving the same two counties, this time in a first round game in the Munster Under 21 hurling championship.
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Decies crushed by ruthless Kingdom
Friday, June 08, 2007
IT WAS much more than a defeat at Fraher Field last Sunday. It was as near to annihilation as you are ever likely to get on a football field.
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Hurlers edge out Model men
Friday, June 01, 2007
ON A night when the mercurial weatherman tried his hardest to play spoilsport, it was still a momentous occasion in the life and history of the Kilgobinet club with the official opening last Saturday of their magnificent new grounds and facilities - -including a quite breathtaking social centre.
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A footballing day to savour
Thursday, May 24, 2007
Days like last Sunday just don’t come often enough for Waterford football teams, managements, and supporters.
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News on Ken and Dan very encouraging
Friday, May 18, 2007
UNDERSTANDABLY concerns about the physical welfare of Ken McGrath have been uppermost in the minds of all hurling followers throughout the county after the confirmation that he had fractured a thumb in Mount Sion’s club championship game against Ballyduff Lower last Saturday week.
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No major surprises in SHC openers
Friday, May 11, 2007
ONLY Ballygunner’s victory over Abbeyside at Fraher Field last Sunday denied me a “clean sweep’’ of correct first round predictions in the six county senior hurling championship games played over the weekend.
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Cats are favourites but Déise have big chance
Thursday, April 26, 2007
HAVING sent Tipp and Cork packing in successive weeks, the most defining moment of all for our senior hurlers comes at storied Semple Stadium on Sunday and a showdown with the Cats of Kilkenny in a National League final that truly is an exciting and mouthwatering prospect.
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Hard earned but deserved Déise triumph
Friday, April 20, 2007
IT was never going to be anything other than it actually was at Semple Stadium last Sunday. Another Waterford/ Cork showdown in the best traditions of the neighbouring provincial counties, and as in so many of their most recent past encounters it was another that went right down to the wire.
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As close as you can get in Nowlan Park
Friday, April 13, 2007
THE all important thing was the victory. As narrow as it could ever be, but ending on the right side of that 1-20 to 1-19 scoreline in Nowlan Park has set up a mouthwatering National Hurling League semi-final showdown with neighbours Cork next Sunday.
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All-Ireland Colleges final day beckons for De La Salle
Friday, April 06, 2007
KENNEDY PARK in New Ross was a bitingly cold place to be last Thursday evening, but watching those heroic De La Salle boys battle their way to victory against a very good Castlecomer Community School opposition in the All-Ireland Colleges senior hurling championship “A’’ semi-final well and truly warmed the cockles of the heart.
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League semi-final beckons for Déise
Friday, March 30, 2007
IT was as near to a “no contest’’ as makes no meaningful difference. Down offered stout but ineffectual opposition at a sparsely populated Fraher Field last Sunday, and the twenty nine point margin that separated the sides at the end fairly reflected the difference in class between them.
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Jimmy’s night to remember
Friday, March 09, 2007
It was, in the truest sense, a night to remember at Lismore’s Ballyrafter House last Friday when delegates from every county in the province formally ratified Jimmy O’Gorman as the Munster Council’s new chairman for the next three years.
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Up and running at Wexford Park
Friday, February 23, 2007
IT was as near as you would ever want to the perfect start to a National Hurling League campaign that hasn’t ended in ultimate triumph for us since the late days of Spring in 1963.
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Defeat but no disgrace in Sligo
Friday, February 16, 2007
THE long road west to Yeats country brought nothing by way of reward for the Waterford footballers last. A narrow three point defeat, 0-14 to 1-8, scarcely tells of a brave, brave, National League effort against Sligo in their own backyard.
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Jimmy O’Gorman’s big day looming
Friday, February 09, 2007
THERE’S little more than three weeks to go to what will be the biggest day in the GAA life of Lismore clubman and current Munster Council vice chairman, Jimmy O’Gorman.
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Déise’s Crystal trail runs cold
Friday, February 02, 2007
WE’LL not be keeping the Waterford Crystal trophy at home for the coming year. Cork ensured that at Fraher Field last Sunday when they squeezed past us in the semi-final of the tournament by a solitary point at the end of a keen and very competitive hour’s hurling.
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Decent enough opener to new season
Friday, January 26, 2007
FRAHER field on a January day and the rain cascading down in torrents. No place certainly for the middle of the road hurling fan, so no surprise at all that only some of the diehards braved it to the Dungarvan venue, last Sunday for our opening salvo of the new season against Limerick IT in the quarter final of the Waterford Crystal tournament.
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Marathon hurling year begins here
Friday, January 19, 2007
Where, or how, it will all end for us in 2007 only the Man above knows. What we can say for certain however is that Waterford’s hurling year kick starts on Sunday at Fraher Field and a joust with Limerick IT in the Waterford Crystal tournament.
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Honours mount up for Nire star
Friday, January 12, 2007
THE New Year began as the old one ended for the Nire’s outstanding defender and the county’s 2006 “Footballer Of The Year’’, Maurice O’Gorman.
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Yet another season dawns with fresh hope
Friday, January 05, 2007
The heartbreak of 2006 has, finally, been put aside and for our county senior hurling team hope springs eternal once more with the dawn of a new playing season.
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Christmas Eve horror of horrors
Friday, December 15, 2006
If what I’m hearing through the grapevine has validity attaching to it then we are set to have divisional and county finals played either on the eve of Christmas Eve or Christmas Eve itself. Horror of horrors.
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Finals, finals and more finals
Friday, December 08, 2006
IT’S worse than watching paint dry viewing the efforts of the County Board to complete all of the outstanding county finals before Santa arrives on Christmas Eve night. I can tell them here and now however that Santa will have come and gone and not all of them will have been decided.
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Roanmore depart the top flight
Friday, December 08, 2006
FORa quarter of a century the Roanmore club has graced the county senior hurling championship scene with pride and no little distinction.
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Glorious day for Waterford football
Friday, December 08, 2006
DAYS like last Sunday don’t come nearly often enough for Waterford clubs and Waterford football in general. When they do however they’re occasions to savour and that’s exactly what all of us at Fraher Field as we basked in the glory of the Nire’s finest hour.
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Dying with little dignity
Friday, December 08, 2006
THE character of a nation and its government can be judged by the way it treats its senior citizens and the dying.
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Nire denied by late, late, show
Friday, December 01, 2006
WHEN is five minutes not five minutes? For the answer I would direct you to well known Cork inter county referee Michael Collins who had charge of last Sunday’s Munster club football championship semi-final between the Nire and Aherlow at Leahy Park in Cashel.
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Crunch time in Munster for Nire and Fenor
Thursday, November 23, 2006
IT'S a big, big, Munster day for two of our clubs on Sunday with places in the respective senior football and junior hurling provincial finals the lucrative prizes on offer for the Nire and Fenor.
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Nire’s champion day as reds toppled
Thursday, November 16, 2006
SO near and yet so tantalisingly far. That’s how the cookie crumbled for Stradbally at tension charged Fraher Field last Sunday, their history seeking six timer bid left in tatters as the Nire celebrated a famous victory and a richly deserved one too.
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Dungarvan win West IHC title in style
Friday, November 10, 2006
THE pre match expectation of a battle royal between Dungarvan and Clashmore in last Saturday’s West intermediate hurling final at Fraher Field never materialised.
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Football fans will flock to Fraher Field
Friday, November 03, 2006
OUR senior football championship has been nothing to write home about to date, but if ever the fireworks are to come it must surely be Sunday next when Fraher Field hosts a pair of semi finals that hold out genuine promise of a feast of thrills, spills, and possible surprises.
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Sion’s glory days return in Fraher Field
Friday, October 27, 2006
THE validity of the old adage that “goals win games’’ was strikingly illustrated yet again at Fraher Field last Sunday when Mount Sion scorched to a record 35th title win against defending champions Ballygunner in a county senior hurling championship final that never quite measured up to all the prematch hype and build up.
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Gunners opt for Fraher Field for ‘old firm’ final
Thursday, October 19, 2006
BALLYGUNNER’S decision to invoke a county bye-law and bring Sunday’s senior hurling final against arch rivals Mount Sion to Fraher Field(3.30) may have caused initial surprise countywide.
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Washout blues at Fraher Field - again
Friday, October 13, 2006
WHO was it that coined the phrase, “it never rains but it pours?” There’s been evidence aplenty of the veracity of that at Fraher Field for the last two Sundays much to the understandable chagrin and annoyance of County Board officialdom.
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Hurling semis to take pride of place
Friday, October 06, 2006
FINGERS crossed that the mercurial weatherman will be in less belligerent mood this coming Sunday that he was last weekend.
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Champions survive as three semi-finalists confirmed
Friday, September 29, 2006
NOT the most accurate of predictions on my part last weekend, plumping for Abbeyside, Mount Sion, Lismore, and Ballyduff Upper to make up the final four in the race for the county senior hurling championship.
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Hurling season set to burst into life
Friday, September 22, 2006
IT may be autumn and late September but only now is the county senior hurling championship really about to start.
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Interesting weekend awaits
Friday, September 15, 2006
THE defending champions, Ballygunner, are in Fraher Field action on Saturday (5.30) against Ardmore, and while they will be odds on favourites to advance to the knockout stage the Gunners won’t need to be reminded of their own indifferent form so far this year.
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Classy Cats get the cream
Friday, September 08, 2006
FROM a purist’s point of view it may not have been the greatest of All-Ireland hurling finals, but the intensity of the exchanges, the raw courage of all the players, and the near fanatical will to win of Kilkenny made last Sunday’s Croke Park showdown one to remember.
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A perfect day at Fraher Field
Friday, September 01, 2006
NOTtoo many locals made it to Fraher Field last Saturday for the Cork/Kilkenny All-Ireland intermediate hurling final.
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Lower and Abbeyside favoured
Friday, September 01, 2006
FRAHER Field is also the venue for the Saturday evening(5pm) meeting of Fourmilewater and Ballyduff Lower, and here the Westerners are going to have to pull something very special out of the hat if they are to survive.
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Hurling’s ‘big two’ go head to head
Friday, September 01, 2006
HURLING’S day of days. All-Ireland final Sunday, and for the umpteenth time the “big two’’ of the modern era go head to head in a winner-take-all showdown for the Liam McCarthy Cup.
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Senior Hurling Championship taking shape
Friday, August 25, 2006
THERE’S still many a mile to travel before the 2006 county senior hurling champions are crowned.
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Disappointment of Croker still lingers
Friday, August 18, 2006
TIME, it is said, is a great healer. I wonder however. The disappointment of that agonising one point All-Ireland hurling semi-final defeat still hangs heavily over city and county and just will not go away.
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Let’s quench that Rebel fire in Croker
Friday, August 04, 2006
THE moment of truth is at hand and Croke Park on Sunday represents a date with destiny.
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Excellent Déise deservedly overcome Tipp
Thursday, July 27, 2006
THERE’S an age-old adage which suggests that the best wine is kept ‘til last. In the context of the four All-Ireland hurling quarter-finals last weekend that certainly held true with Waterford and Tipperary providing a Croke Park classic for 45,000 fans.
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Winner to take all in Croker
Thursday, July 20, 2006
Fate surely is fickle. Utterly unpredictable too. When Waterford and Tipp fought to a finish in the Munster hurling championship semi-final on June 4th last little did either county think that they would be squaring up to each other again seven weeks later in a “winner take all’’ showdown on the celebrated sward of Croke Park.
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Mission accomplished against stubborn Laois
Wednesday, July 12, 2006
NOT perhaps with the expected style and panache, but mission accomplished nonetheless.
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Galway colours lowered in thriller
Friday, July 07, 2006
WHATEVERour eventual fate in the race for All-Ireland senior hurling glory, last Sunday’s Walsh Park group qualifier against Galway will remain a vivid memory for the 11,000 fans fortunate enough to have been there.
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Galway to provide searching test
Friday, June 30, 2006
MEMORIES of other great championship days at Walsh Park will surely be revived on Sunday when Galway come to town for a game that will almost certainly decide who finishes top of our group in the All-Ireland hurling qualifiers.
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Hurlers in cruise control in Mullingar
Friday, June 23, 2006
VICTORY in Cusack Park with the minimum of fuss, even if with a little less fanfare than we might have expected.
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On the road to Mullingar for historic meeting
Friday, June 16, 2006
BLESSED with the most favourable of draws in the All-Ireland qualifiers, our hurlers are on the road to Mullingar on Sunday for an historic first ever meeting with the men of Westmeath.
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Penalty paid for prodigal wastage
Friday, June 09, 2006
A DAY of ‘might have been’s’ on the banks of the Lee last Sunday. On as perfect a hurling sod as I’ve ever scene, and in the resplendent sun splashed Pairc Ui Chaoimh setting before almost 28,000 fans, our dream of a third Munster senior hurling championship title in five years was blown apart by an Eoin Kelly inspired Tipperary.
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Controversy as ‘Courty retain title
Friday, June 02, 2006
Ballinacourty retained their Western Under 21 “A’’ football title at Fraher Field last Saturday night, defeating the Nire by a decisive eight point margin, 3-9 to 0-10.
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A lot of pride in footballers’ defeat
Friday, May 26, 2006
FOR lengthy spells at Fitzgerald Stadium in Killarney last Sunday the tiny band of Waterford football followers clung to the genuine hope of another sensation to match that of forty-nine years ago.
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Memorable night in Portlaw
Friday, May 19, 2006
NO words of mine could ever do fitting justice to those involved in the organising and staging of the Mossie Whelan fundraising senior hurling game between ourselves and the Cats last Sunday night.
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Senior championship roars to life
Friday, May 12, 2006
NO doubting the hurling heroes of last weekend. That accolade goes to those remarkable men from Stradbally, magnificent four point winners over champions Ballygunner in a sensational opener to this year’s county championship campaign.
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Champions looking dangerous already
Friday, May 05, 2006
IT’S beginning to look just a little ominous. Before the month of April was over five in a row senior football champions Stradbally had played two and won games in the championship with their place in the quarter final already assured.
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Busy weekend in the West
Friday, May 05, 2006
THE up coming weekend is a busy one in the West with a series of games down for decision in the intermediate hurling championship.
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Senior hurling title race gets underway
Friday, May 05, 2006
FOURgames to whet the appetite this weekend as the county senior hurling championship gets under way.
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Minors seek Munster final place
Friday, April 28, 2006
EXPECT a very sizeable turn out of hurling fans at Fraher Field next Wednesday evening (7 0’clock) when our minors play host to Cork in what has the makings of a cracking Munster championship semi-final.
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No major championship surprises
Friday, April 28, 2006
NO major surprises in any of the other first round senior football championship games played last weekend.
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West IFC begins
Friday, April 28, 2006
THE Western Board kick started its divisional intermediate football championship with four first round games last weekend.
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Champions open on a high note
Friday, April 28, 2006
IT’S early days yet in the race for the county senior football championship which Stradbally have exclusively harvested for the past half decade
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League campaign ends very tamely
Friday, April 21, 2006
WHITHER now for our senior hurlers? Another day, another defeat, another disappointment, and yet another high profile sending off.
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Under 21’s do county proud
Friday, April 07, 2006
THERE weren’t too many bodies and souls at windswept Fraher Field last Saturday, but those who braved the elements thrilled to a magnificent display by the Waterford Under 21 footballers as they edged out Clare, 1-8 to 0-7, to qualify for a Munster championship final showdown with Cork on Wednesday of next week - -most probably at a Cork venue.
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Hurlers heading up to Down
Friday, March 24, 2006
HOPEFULLY by now that disappointing defeat by Clare has been flushed out of the system as the senior hurlers prepare to head for the Ards peninsula and a Division 1A National League game that is absolutely vital in the context of qualification for the knock out stage of the National League.
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Banner deliver reality check
Friday, March 17, 2006
OUR flying start to the National Hurling League campaign encountered its first hiccup at Walsh Park last Sunday, and not for the first time the men from the Banner were the ones to throw the spanner in the works.
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Banner stand in way of 100% start
Friday, March 10, 2006
THE National Hurling League campaign has begun better for us than even our most optimistic fans could have hoped for. Maximum points from two games, top of the group, and already a place in the knockout quarter final stage beckoning. Can’t get much better than that.
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Quarter-final spot beckons for Déise
Thursday, March 02, 2006
ONLY two out of five games in the group played to date, but already a place in the quarterfinals of the National Hurling League beckons for Paul Flynn and his warriors.
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Hurlers’ perfect start
Friday, February 24, 2006
IT was NOT a perfect display, not by the proverbial mile. But it was the perfect start to our National Hurling League campaign at Fraher Field against Wexford last Sunday before near enough to 6,000 fans on a bitingly cold day and windswept day.
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Hurlers set out on league trail
Friday, February 17, 2006
THE winning of the National League is hardly all important in the overall context of our hurling year, but it would be nice nonetheless to take hold of a title that hasn’t found a home in this part of the world for nigh on forty three years.
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An utter waste of time
Friday, February 10, 2006
THE fans who journeyed to Colligan last Saturday for the meeting of Waterford and Tipperary in the Waterford Crystal Shield hurling semi-final and forked out their hard earned euros for the “privilege’’, unwittingly became the victims of a complete con job.
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Tippperary test should tell us more
Friday, February 03, 2006
AT the time of penning this piece all I can say with certainty is that the semi-final of the Waterford Crystal Shield will be played next Saturday with home advantage for us against Tipp in what could well be a forerunner for our meeting in a June Munster championship semi-final showdown.
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CIT game of very limited value
Friday, January 27, 2006
A win is a win and is always welcome. That’s the plus comment from last Sunday’s outing by the senior hurlers in Ballygunner, but as an indicator of what is likely to come in next month’s National League campaign then forget all about it.
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Plenty of food for thought
Friday, January 20, 2006
NOT the start to a new hurling year that we would have wanted at Walsh Park last Sunday, but no argument about the 1-18 to 1-9 result that gave Limerick a deserved ticket into the semi final of the newly launched Waterford Crystal tournament.
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Club of the Year to reflect
Friday, January 13, 2006
LITTLE did Ballyduff Upper believe when they set out on the 2005 playing season that they would end being named Waterford’s "Club Of The Year".
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Championship format to be decided
Friday, January 13, 2006
CLUBS have until this Friday to make submissions to county secretary Seamus Grant regarding the formats that should apply to the upcoming county senior hurling and football championships.
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Hartley hangs up his inter-county boots
Friday, January 13, 2006
THE winter cobwebs will be finally, and fully, swept aside this weekend when Limerick’s hurlers come to town (Walsh Park) to test our mettle.
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The importance of the National League
Friday, January 06, 2006
WITH Christmas 2005 consigned to history and a New Year now in being, our thoughts will inevitably be turning to matters that are important to us GAA hacks.
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A thrilling minor draw
Friday, December 23, 2005
Ballyduff Upper (2-11) and Roammore (4-5) played out a thrilling draw in one of the best county minor football B’’ finals in years.
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From zero to hero for Ballyduff
Friday, December 23, 2005
When Ballyduff Upper surrendered their senior hurling status in 2004 it seemed that the house had fallen in on one of the most tradition steeped clubs in the county.
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Longest serving secretary in the land
Friday, December 23, 2005
WHAT a very special night it was in Dungarvan last Wednesday for Seamus Grant when he was unanimously returned as County Board secretary for another year.
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An "as you were" county convention
Friday, December 23, 2005
Last Wednesday night’s annual county convention was always going to be a non event and made no meaningful difference.
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Deserved honour for Seamus O’Brien
Friday, December 16, 2005
ONE of our greatest ever administrators was honoured in a most fitting way in Limerick’s South Court Hotel last Friday night when Abbeyside/Ballinacourty clubman Seamus O’Brien was presented with a “Distinguished Service’’ award by the Munster Council.
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Quiet convention
Friday, December 09, 2005
GOD be with the days when annual conventions, divisional and county, were lively and very often hot and heavy affairs.
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Gunners’ day of disappointment in Thurles
Friday, December 09, 2005
YOU would want to have been in the post match Ballygunner dressingroom at Semple Stadium last Sunday to appreciate the depth of disappointment at that one point Munster final by Newtownshandrum.
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Ballyduff hoping for another shock win
Friday, December 09, 2005
WHO would have thought it? A Ballygunner/Ballyduff Upper Under 21 "A" hurling county final.
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Gunners go for Munster glory
Friday, December 02, 2005
SEMPLE Stadium beckons. Its Munster club hurling final day on Sunday and the hallowed Thurles pitch will host what should be an epic decider between Cork’s Newtownshandrum and our own Ballygunner.
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Stradbally’s famous five
Friday, November 25, 2005
FROM a fantastic four to a famous five for Stradbally’s heroic footballers in last Saturday’s replayed county senior final at Fraher Field.
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Ballyduff back where they belong
Friday, November 18, 2005
AFTER just one year out of the top flight, Ballyduff Upper will be plying their hurling trade in senior ranks in 2006.
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Glory for Brickeys
Friday, November 11, 2005
On a day of unbridled glory for Brickey Rangers they were crowned county junior hurling champions for the first time since 1959 when they edged out luckless Fenor by 1-11 to 0-10 at Fraher Field last Sunday.
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Stradbally’s Junior title
Friday, October 28, 2005
FAMED Fraher Field hasn’t witnessed many more courageous or successful comebacks than that mounted by Stradbally in last Saturday’s Western junior football championship final.
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Gunners rule the County roost
Friday, October 21, 2005
A GRIPPING county senior hurling final. One well worthy of the occasion, and all credit to Ballygunner and De La Salle for providing such an enthralling spectacle in the most horrendous conditions.
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County final decision day at Walsh Park
Friday, October 14, 2005
WITH the mould finally broken, refreshing winds of change will blow across Walsh Park on Sunday when Ballygunner and De La Salle line up to do battle in the 2005 county senior hurling final.
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Hurlers win in a canter
Friday, March 18, 2005
NO test really. A lethargic stroll in the park with only the minimum of effort required for our hurlers to see off Dublin’s feeble challenge last Sunday.
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Double D—day at Walsh Park
Friday, March 11, 2005
A DOUBLE bill of National League fare at Walsh Park next Sunday with Dublin and Derry having a pot at our hurling and football teams respectively.
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Ardmore’s night of nostalgia
Friday, March 04, 2005
It was by any yardstick the most memorable of nights at Dungarvan’s Park Hotel last Saturday.
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Defeat overshadowed by Ken’s injury
Friday, February 25, 2005
WHAT a horrible start to the new competitive hurling year for the jewel in our crown. The sight of Ken McGrath leaving the field last Sunday in obvious pain and distress was depressing and demoralising in the extreme.
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Cats come to town
Friday, February 18, 2005
The sparring and the shadow boxing are over, it’s time for the real thing. The visit of the “auld enemy’’, Kilkenny, to Walsh Park on Sunday for the opening round of the National Hurling League is as sure an indicator as you can have that the new competitive season has arrived.
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Cats come to town
Friday, February 18, 2005
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A win and a loss for hurlers
Friday, February 11, 2005
A WEEKEND of mixed fortunes for the county senior hurlers starting with a loss to Limerick in the AIB tourney at Fraher Field on Saturday followed by a heartwarming one point win over Tipp in Clonmel 24 hours later.
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Hurlers get the show on the road
Friday, February 04, 2005
IT’S time, well almost, to start shaking off the winter cobwebs and getting ourselves into the groove for the taxing league and championship year that lies ahead.
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Countdown firmly underway
Friday, January 28, 2005
LITTLE more than three weeks to go and the 2005 competitive hurling season will be under way. Seems just like the other day when our All-Ireland dreams lay in ruins after that desperately unlucky defeat to Kilkenny, a day that for many of us likened to the end of the world.
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Disappointing McGrath Cup Defeat
Friday, January 21, 2005
NO WINNING start to his managerial career with the county senior footballers for John Kiely in Kill last Sunday. Instead the disappointment of exiting from the McGrath Cup against Tralee IT on a 2-8 to 0-9 scoreline.
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Teddy stays, Greener goes
Friday, January 14, 2005
ON the managerial front this past week or so the significant news is that former Cork dual ace Teddy McCarthy has committed himself to another year in managerial charge of the Tallow senior hurlers.
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Kiely takes on a formidable challenge
Wednesday, December 29, 2004
ARGUABLY, it’s the toughest job in football management, a job many have taken on over the years with enthusiasm and commitment but ultimately without any significant measure of success.
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Emotional night as Paddy Joe stands down
Wednesday, December 22, 2004
IT WAS always on the cards that last Wednesday night’s county convention would be an emotional occasion, with Paddy Joe Ryan vacating the chair after 10 eventful and hugely successful years in the job.
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Election drama at GAA convention
Friday, December 17, 2004
ALL OF the main outgoing officers were returned unopposed, something that was well posted in advance.
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Magnificent Reds go oh so close
Friday, December 10, 2004
NO KERRY or Cork presence at Semple Stadium last Sunday, yet as tense and exciting a Munster club football final as there has ever been.
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Stradbally’s assault on history
Friday, December 03, 2004
THERE’S an age old cliché1 that goes, “what’s seldom is wonderful’’, and how aptly it can be applied to next Sunday’s Munster club football championship final between Stradbally and Kilmurray/ Ibickrane at famed Semple Stadium.
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Heartbreaking defeat for Sion
Friday, November 26, 2004
CAN there ever have been a more heartbreaking defeat than that suffered by Mount Sion in last Sunday’s Munster club hurling championship final at Semple Stadium?
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Hurling glory for Abbeyside and Tramore
Friday, November 19, 2004
THE glory and the honours were shared by Abbeyside and Tramore at Fraher Field last Sunday with their victories over Ballygunner and Tourin respectively in the Under 21 and junior hurling county finals.
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Simply the best
Friday, November 05, 2004
THERE can be no argument about it. Magnificent Stradbally, county senior football champions four years on the trot, are simply the best.
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Victory at a cost for ‘Sion’
Friday, October 29, 2004
ALL credit to Mount Sion for that spectacular second half comeback last Saturday to garner the first round Munster club hurling championship spoils against Limerick’s Ahane.
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Courty trounce the Shamrocks
Friday, October 22, 2004
THEY came literally in droves to support Old Parish in last Sunday’s West junior football “A’’ championship final against Ballinacourty at Fraher Field, but they returned home disappointed and emptyhanded with the Shocks failing to raise a gallop and eventually losing by a margin of nine points, 1-9 to 0-3.
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Three in a row for Sion
Friday, October 15, 2004
Mount Sion's reign as county senior hurling champions extended into a third successive year at Walsh Park last Sunday and no one could say they weren’t richly deserving of their 4-14 to 4-7 victory over the Paul Flynn-less Ballgunner.
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Junior final tops the list
Friday, October 15, 2004
NO doubting the big game of this coming weekend in the west.
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Ring cruelly denied
Friday, October 08, 2004
THE Gods certainly didn’t radiate kindly on Ring last Sunday at Fraher Field in their quest to win the Western intermediate hurling title for an historic first time.
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Brickeys and Kilrossanty take Minor honours
Friday, October 01, 2004
THERE I was last week telling you all that Ballinacourty were as near certainties to beat Kilrossanty in the Western “A’’ minor football championship final only for the heroic Comeragh teenagers to leave me with egg all over my face.
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Abbeyside’s title
Friday, September 24, 2004
AN unfortunate leg injury to Ballyduff player Mark Feeney, which necessitated the calling of an ambulance to the venue, resulted in the abandonment of the western ‘A’ minor hurling final between Abbeyside and Ballyduff at Fraher Field last Friday evening.
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Lismore’s glory as Tallow slump
Friday, September 17, 2004
NO change in the old order with Lismore yet again proving themselves the best in the west as they powered their way to a decisive 2-12 to 1-8 victory over Tallow in the losers group final of the senior hurling championship at Fraher Field last Saturday evening.
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Stradbally made hard work of it
Friday, September 03, 2004
THE big game on a relatively quiet programme last weekend was the quarter final senior football championship meeting of Stradbally and Ballinacourty at Fraher Field on Sunday.
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Western hopes still alive
Friday, August 27, 2004
BARRING a miracle of sorts the East’s domination of the county senior hurling championship seems set to continue for another season at least.
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Football champs favoured
Friday, August 27, 2004
The top game of this coming weekend is unquestionably the senior football championship quarter final meeting of titleholders Stradbally and Ballinacourty at Fraher Field on Sunday(3.30pm).
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Mullane’s replacement?
Friday, August 06, 2004
WHO will replace the flying corner forward? Whoever is entrusted with the job won’t need to be told just how big a challenge it is. Filling those Mullane boots can’t, and won’t, be easy.
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Junior go to glory
Friday, July 30, 2004
What odds would you have been given on a Waterford/Leitrim All-Ireland football final at the start of the year? Generous I would suggest.
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Kiely’s Juniors reach All-Ireland final
Friday, July 23, 2004
FIVE years ago John Kiely was hailed a miracle manager when he guided the county’s junior footballers to All-Ireland championship glory with that epic one point victory over Meath at O’Moore Park in Portlaoise.
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Injuries avoided in busy SHC weekend
Friday, July 16, 2004
AS important as the results themselves, was the news that all the county players came through last weekend’s senior hurling championship games injury free.
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An action packed hurling weekend
Friday, July 09, 2004
WITH our hurling stock soaring to the skies right now, interest in this weekend’s games in the county senior championship is certain to reach something close enough to fever pitch.
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Five momentous days
Friday, July 09, 2004
THE most momentous five days in our county’s history ended with that glorious victory over Cork in a rip roaring Munster junior football championship final at rain lashed Fraher Field last Thursday.
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Light Western programme
Friday, July 09, 2004
BECAUSEof a variety of circumstances the Western Board’s weekend championship programme is a relatively light one, with two games in the intermediate football grade topping the bill.
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Clubs to revive memories
Friday, July 09, 2004
FOOTBALL fans have a mouthwatering prospect to look forward to when Kilrossanty and John Mitchels meet in the senior championship at Fraher Field on Friday evening (7.45).
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Our Greatest triumph
Friday, July 02, 2004
THAT final shrill blast of referee Sean McMahon’s last Sunday whistle set the scene for some of the wildest and most emotional celebrations famed Semple Stadium, has ever seen.
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Showdown time at Semple
Friday, June 25, 2004
THE preparations are complete, the dye is cast, and a county holds its breath in anticipation.
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Excitement building to fever pitch
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