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Jimmy bows out in style
Tuesday, March 09, 2010
HIS departure was as impressive as his enthusiastic reception was three years earlier.
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Not Déise’s best day at the office
Tuesday, March 02, 2010
OVERALL it was a disappointing result West of the Shannon last Sunday, and certainly a long way off being our best day at the office.
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Hurlers off to a league flyer with demolition of Dubs
Tuesday, February 23, 2010
THE game itself was nothing to write home about, but the result was the all important issue at Walsh Park last Sunday when Davy’s boys entertained Anthony Daly’s Dubs in the opening round of the National Hurling League.
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Daly’s Dubs come to town
Tuesday, February 16, 2010
WITH the Waterford Crystal trophy tucked safely away after a hugely successful opener to the new season by Davy Fitz’s men, the next big test the National League commences on Sunday with a hugely inviting home tie against Anthony Daly’s Dublin in Walsh Park.
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Déise victorious on the double
Tuesday, February 09, 2010
A LITTLE bit of history at Fraher Field last Sunday as Waterford won their first trophy under the managerial guidance of Davy Fitz, although the one point victory (1-9 to 0-11) over the students of UCC in the Waterford Crystal final came at a price with the straight red card dismissal of Eoin Kelly.
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Students the next test after Banner triumph
Tuesday, February 02, 2010
THERE was a whole lot to be happy about leaving Ballyduff Upper’s magnificent venue last Sunday after Waterford had demolished Clare on an impressive 1-17 to 0-8 scoreline in the semi-final of the Waterford Crystal tournament. What it all amounts to is a date with UCC in next Sunday’s final at Dungarvan’s Fraher Field.
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Little respite for busy Déise’s hurlers
Tuesday, January 26, 2010
IT may still be only January but I don’t know of a busier group of players anywhere in the country right now than the members of Davy Fitzgerald’s new look county hurling panel.
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Plenty of positives in Déise’s Crystal win
Tuesday, January 19, 2010
The new playing season finally get under way last Sunday, and while the footballers were giving All-Ireland champions Kerry a decent run for their money in Killarney the hurlers made it a winning start with a comprehensive 1-26 to 1-12 victory over Cork I.T. in the Waterford Crystal tournament game played at an excellently appointed Kilmac’ venue.
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Déise hurlers under starters orders - weather permitting
Wednesday, January 13, 2010
HAVING taken a merciless battering from an equally merciless weatherman over the last two weekends fingers are being kept tightly crossed that the county senior hurlers will get their 2010 competitive season under way next Sunday with a first round game in the Waterford Crystal tournament against Cork I.T.
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County championships 2010 should be worth waiting for
Tuesday, January 05, 2010
TWELVE months ago this column predicted one of the most competitive and exciting county senior hurling championships in many a day.
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Déise don’t rank with DJ
Tuesday, December 29, 2009
INTERESTING to listen to former Kilkenny great D. J. Carey being interviewed on the RTE Sports Personality Of The Year television presentation on Sunday of last week.
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Tommy has been a good and faithful servant
Wednesday, December 23, 2009
WHILE county convention 2009 has been now consigned to the pages of history, it would be remiss of the column not to pay tribute to Kill’s Tommy Hennessy whose years of membership of the County Board executive ended with his defeat by Paddy Joe Ryan in the contest to elect a successor to the great Seamus O’Brien as Waterford’s representative on the Central Council.
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Justin survives.....but for how long?
Wednesday, December 23, 2009
FOR obvious reasons we had much more than a passing interest in the outcome of last Thursday night’s Limerick County Board vote on the managerial future of Justin McCarthy.
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Half a century.....and we’re still waiting on Suirside
Tuesday, December 15, 2009
AS 2009 draws to a close there’s scarcely any need to remind readers of the fact that all of half a century has now flown by since Frankie Walsh mounted the Croke Park steps to take the Liam McCarthy Cup in tow and subsequently bring it in triumph across the Suir Bridge.
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Welcome on board Tom Cunningham
Tuesday, December 15, 2009
THE old order changeth, and that most definitely was the case at last Thursday night’s annual county convention in Dungarvan.
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Changing times at top of Déise GAA
Friday, December 11, 2009
IT’S FAIR to say that next Thursday night’s annual County Board convention in Dungarvan will focus most of all on the ballot box, and the elections for some of the key administrative positions.
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No joy on provincial front
Tuesday, December 01, 2009
A DAY of disappointment on the double on the provincial championship front last Sunday with Ballygunner failing in their bid to become Munster club senior hurling champions, while Kilgobnet went down much more tamely in their junior football semi-final against Limerick opposition at Fraher Field.
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Good luck to the Gunners
Tuesday, November 24, 2009
Semple Stadium on the last Sunday of November and a major Munster senior hurling final. A contradiction in terms surely, but it will be an exciting reality nonetheless when our county champions, Ballygunner, throw down the gauntlet to Cork’s Newtownshandrum in a decider full of mouthwatering possibilities.
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A day of mixed forture on provincial front
Tuesday, November 17, 2009
A great day for Ballygunner at Walsh Park last Sunday and, hopefully, an even greater day to come on Sunday week when they take on Newtownshadrum in the Munster club senior hurling final at Semple Stadium.
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John Doyle’s ‘sentimental’ visit
Tuesday, November 10, 2009
EIGHT times All-Ireland hurling winning legend John Doyle of Tipperary spoke emotionally last week of his “sentimental journey’’ back to Dungarvan where he spent so much of his boyhood holiday days.
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Reds rule the county roost once more
Tuesday, November 03, 2009
FINISHING the decade as they began it - -top of the footballing walk. That’s the story from wintry Fraher Field last Sunday when the mighty men of Stradbally pulled off something of a shock by their 2-5 to 0-9 defeat of reigning champions Nire in what was always a tight, tense, and exciting county senior football final.
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The West is certainly awake
Tuesday, October 27, 2009
A MAGICALhurling day for the West in Walsh Park last Sunday and most especially for the newly crowned intermediate and junior champions Dngarvan and Tourin/Glen Rovers respectively.
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Gunners deny Lismore - again
Tuesday, October 20, 2009
By now I’m pretty certain that every soul in the Cathedral town of Lismore firmly believes in the Ballygunner hoodoo.
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Roll on the county final replay
Tuesday, October 13, 2009
THE fans fortunate enough to have made Walsh Park their choice of venue last Sunday will be relishing the opportunity of seeing more of the same next Saturday when Lismore and Ballygunner lock horns in a county senior hurling final replay that will be much more than eagerly awaited and anticipated.
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‘Jackson’s‘bignight’ - -booklaunchatParkHotel
Tuesday, October 06, 2009
DUNGARVAN’S Park Hotel is the place to be tomorrow (Wednesday) night when GAA President Christy Cooney will officially launch what I’m certain will prove to be one of the most fascinating GAA books ever written and published.
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2001 all over again in County Final
Tuesday, September 29, 2009
IT WILL be the case of 2001 revisited when Lismore and Ballygunner square up to each other in the county senior hurling final at Walsh Park on Sunday week.
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Did ‘Jackson’ go or was he pushed?
Tuesday, September 22, 2009
THE above question has been asked many times since the confirmation that John “Jackson’’ Kiely’s tenure as county senior football manager was at an end.
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Mullane looks set to miss rest of season
Tuesday, September 15, 2009
NOTWITHSTANDING all of the fine hurling the fans enjoyed last weekend, the one moment that stands apart for everyone will have been that 9th minute incident in the county senior quarter final at Fraher Field between champions De La Salle and their arch rivals Ballygunner.
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Hurling quarters full of promise
Tuesday, September 08, 2009
WITH all due respects to those clubs who haven’t made it, the quarter-final line up in the county senior hurling championship is as near to perfect as you could ever want it to be.
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Deano’s winning start with Abbeyside
Tuesday, September 01, 2009
THE big GAA story of last week was the appointment of former Cork star Joe Deane as the new Abbeyside senior hurling coach working alongside team manager Neil Moore.
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Dr Tom calls it a day
Tuesday, August 25, 2009
THE END of an era has well and truly been reached in Waterford hurling with the decision of Dungarvan based Tom Higgins to stand down as official “team doctor’.
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Déise’s year of unfulfilled promise ends in Croker
Tuesday, August 18, 2009
IT began as a hurling year of high promise, but ended in disappointment with the defeat of the county minors last Sunday. Just that Under 18 Munster title triumph to show for another season of high endeavour as the quest for an increasingly elusive All-Ireland title is set to continue into 2010.
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Croker mix of pride and heartbreak
Tuesday, August 11, 2009
THE magnificence of Waterford’s overall display will undoubtedly remain an abiding memory, but it can ever only part compensate for the heartbreak of defeat in last Sunday’s epic All-Ireland hurling semi-final against the champion Cats.
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All-Ireland final revisited
Tuesday, August 04, 2009
LITTLE DID we think as we trooped dejectedly from Croke Park last September that less than twelve months later we would be given the chance of redemption against our destroyers of that ill fated day - -the champion Cats.
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Intermediates well beaten in Cork
Thursday, July 30, 2009
I MISSED out on last Wednesday’s Munster intermediate hurling final at Pairc Ui Chaoimh because of a funeral commitment in Wales.
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Déise come back from the dead in Thurles
Thursday, July 30, 2009
HAS there ever been a finish quite like that at Semple Stadium last Sunday as Waterford, inspired by the introduction of Dan The Man from the substitutes bench, hauled themselves back from the very precipice to snatch victory from the jaws of defeat against a shell shocked Galway in a quite extraordinary All-Ireland hurling quarter final.
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Make or break for hurlers
Tuesday, July 21, 2009
There will be no hiding place in Semple Stadium next Sunday. No back door escape route, no second chance.
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Magnificent minors steal Semple show
Wednesday, July 15, 2009
APOLOGIES if some readers will be of the opinion that I’m putting the cart before the horse in leading off with words of praise for the county’s magnificent minor hurlers who were crowned champions of Munster at Semple Stadium last Sunday after a quite sensational 0-18 to 1-13 victory over odds on favourites Tipperary.
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Day of double destiny at Semple
Tuesday, July 07, 2009
NOT for more than half a century - 1958 to be precise -- have Waterford and Tipperary shared centre stage on the double on Munster hurling final day.
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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
Friday, June 18, 2004
STILL ten clear days to go, but already the excitement is building steadily to what will ultimately become fever pitch. Munster hurling final day beckons, and for a third successive year our county will proudly be an integral part of it.
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A victory of epic proportions
Friday, June 11, 2004
WHAT a magnificent game of championship hurling! What an exhilarating way to win it!
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Brickeys serve notice
Friday, June 11, 2004
YOU don’t usually associate the football stronghold that is the Brickey Rangers club with hurling success, but it could well be the team to set this year’s junior hurling A championship race alive.
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Daunting task for footballers
Friday, June 11, 2004
IT IS neither a good nor an easy time to be a Waterford footballer. A disastrous National League campaign ended without a solitary victory, and not even a draw to break the fall.
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A place in the final beckons
Friday, June 04, 2004
COME four o’clock on Sunday afternoon a throbbing Páirc Uí Chaoimh will be no place for the fainthearted.
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Big game build up underway
Friday, May 28, 2004
AMAZING what one quality display can do. Apathetic fans who had almost lost interest in the county senior hurlers following that disappointing league final defeat by Galway, are now caught up in the frenzy and hype that has taken hold of the entire county.
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A day of unbridled glory
Friday, May 21, 2004
NOT in our wildest or most optimistic expectations could any of us have realistically predicted how things panned out in last Sunday’s never to be forgotten Munster hurling championship opener against the cock-a hoop and ultra confident Banner.
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Picking up the pieces
Friday, May 14, 2004
IT WAS, ultimately, a nightmare revisited, the worst possible scenario with that crucial first-round Munster championship showdown with Clare now just days away.
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A real character test
Friday, May 14, 2004
IT REMAINS to be seen how last Sunday’s debacle will effect the players psychologically and, indeed, every other way when they take to the Semple Stadium pitch on Sunday for that championship showdown with Clare.
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Brickeys and St Oliver’s to meet
Friday, May 14, 2004
BRICKEY Rangers and St Oliver's will contest the Western U21 B hurling final, following the Brickeys' surprise but deserved 1-10 to 2-4 victory over neighbours Dungarvan at Fraher Field and St Oliver's' bloodless coup following the walkover conceded by Ardmore in the second semi-final.
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A Tallow/Abbeyside U21 final
Friday, May 14, 2004
EXPECTATIONS materialised at the weekend when champions Tallow, now firmly on course for a hat trick of divisional and county titles in the grade, and Abbeyside set up what promises to be a mouthwatering Western U21 A hurling final.
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Let’s end the league famine!
Friday, May 07, 2004
IT ALL began with a visit to the home of the dual league and All-Ireland champions Kilkenny last February, and now it is set to end, hopefully in glory, at the Gaelic Grounds in Limerick on Sunday.
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Just the job at Semple
Friday, April 30, 2004
KNOCKERS of the National Hurling League were handed their answer at sun splashed Semple Stadium last Sunday when an attendance of almost 11,000 lapped up every moment of a thriller between Waterford and Tipp.
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We’re nearly there
Friday, April 23, 2004
SEMPLE Stadium here we come. After the hurling heroics on the banks of the Lee last Sunday next stop is the famed Thurles venue this coming Sunday with Tipperary standing in our way of a place in the National League final.
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Limerick will provide stern test
Friday, April 09, 2004
First things first and a deserved acknowledgement of the achievement of the county hurlers in qualifying for the second stage of the National League campaign.
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League hopes still alive
Friday, April 02, 2004
IT always has been a funny old world. Sometimes, like last Sunday for instance, hurling can also be a funny old game.
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Winning gallop halted with a vengeance
Friday, March 26, 2004
A REALITY check of some substance at Walsh Park last Sunday as Galway halted our winning National Hurling League winning run and brought a lot of people crashing back down to mother earth.
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No Easy task in Parnell Park
Friday, March 12, 2004
WITH two wins already safely tucked away in an unbeaten, our hurlers journey to Parnell Park on Saturday to take on a Dublin side pointless to date in the National League campaign and managed by one of our own, Abbeysider Humphrey Kelleher.
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Tops in Nowlan Park thriller
Friday, February 27, 2004
NOT in our wildest or most optimistic dreams could we have predicted a National Hurling League opener that had nine thousand fans as enthralled as they were at Nowlan Park last Sunday.
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Sean Kelly guest of honour
Friday, February 13, 2004
IT WAS, as expected, a full house at the Park Hotel last Saturday night when GAA president Sean Kelly was guest of honour at the Stradbally Victory Social.
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Second half football fade out
Friday, February 06, 2004
A HUGELY disappointing start to the new competitive year for our senior footballers at windswept Kill last Sunday.
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Billy's boys set out on league campaign
Friday, January 30, 2004
WHILE last Sunday week's McGrath Cup semi final was a valuable competitive start to the new season, it gets under way in earnest for the county footballers this coming Sunday with a home game at Walsh Park against Wicklow in the National League.
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Controversial McGrath Cup exit
Friday, January 23, 2004
THERE was no shortage of controversy at the superbly appointed Ardmore venue last Sunday when Billy Harty’s first official game as county senior football manager ended in a disappointing and desperately unlucky exit from the McGrath Cup against Limerick.
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The championship year ahead
Friday, January 16, 2004
NEXT Monday night club delegates will meet in Dungarvan under the auspices of the County Board to consider the format for both senior championships in the coming year.
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Two top players on the move?
Friday, January 09, 2004
TWO of the biggest names in Waterford hurling over the last decade are believed to be on the point of transferring to neighbouring East Cork clubs for the coming year.
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Transfermania takes hold
Friday, January 02, 2004
ALWAYS at this time of year there’s talk and more than a little speculation on the transfer scene. This year more than ever however, to the point in fact where it can be said that transfermania is in the air.
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County Convention Reflections
Friday, December 26, 2003
IT TOOK less than three hours to complete the business of last week’s county convention in Dungarvan and if that’s not a good enough reason for switching from the weekend to a Monday night for the first time then I don’t know what is.
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Western Board convention
Friday, December 19, 2003
IT WAS, as everyone predicted it would be, a tame and uneventful Western Board convention in Knockanore last Thursday night.
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GAA: Magnificent Kilgobinet are champs
Friday, December 12, 2003
THE pundits may have rated them as the outsiders, but Kilgobinet took scant notice of that as they carved out an epic victory to capture the county junior hurling championship title at Walsh Park last Sunday.
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Defeat on the Double
Friday, December 05, 2003
NOT A very happy day for the West at Fraher Field last Sunday with the challenges of Stradbally and Ballinameela for county junior and intermediate football honours respectively falling by the wayside.
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Super Stradbally
Friday, November 28, 2003
ON THE day when the last club to win a hat trick of senior football championships, Dungarvan, was relegated back to intermediate, Stradbally became the new and proud heirs to that significant “three in a row’’ achievement with their 1-11 to 0-8 victory over Tramore at a cold but sunny Fraher Field last Sunday.
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The Voice of Waterford GAA
Saturday, November 22, 2003
THE curtain finally comes down on what has largely been an uneventful County senior football championship campaign when Stradbally go in search of a third successive title against surprise packets Tramore in Sunday’s final at Fraher Field.
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Abbeyside bid to regain senior status
Friday, November 14, 2003
With four county titles already in safe keeping in a year of unprecedented championship success for Abbeyside / Ballinacourty, the Abbeyside intermediate hurlers will be in good fettle when they journey to Walsh Park on Sunday.
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Deadlock in County showpiece
Friday, November 07, 2003
ON A day that was a grim and uninviting reminder that winter has arrived, the fans didn t exactly get value for mone at Walsh Park last Sunday.
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Champs slightly avoured in football semi
Friday, November 07, 2003
THE RACE for the county senior football championship title has been largel unexciting and uneventful to date.
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Unfortunate fixtures clash
Friday, October 31, 2003
You can’t, and won’t, get a more unfortunate fixture clash than next Sunday with the county senior hurling final at Walsh Park and both Western intermediate deciders at Fraher Field.
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Semi-finals fell flat as a pancake
Friday, October 24, 2003
Expectancy is one thing, deliverance another, and I suspect most of the fans who turned up in their thousands at Fraher Field last Sunday for the doubleheader senior hurling semi final programme returned home feeling just a little cheated.
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Showdown Sunday at Fraher Field
Friday, October 17, 2003
The biggest hurling day of the domestic championship season by the proverbial mile.
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Action packed weekend
Friday, October 10, 2003
THE cruel irony of it. Idle playing fields for much of the summer months, and now a mad scramble to get the many championships played to finality as winter bears down upon us like a train out of control.
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Fraher Field reopens this weekend
Friday, October 03, 2003
NOT BEFORE time, I can already hear many of the fans say. Better late than never of course, and the reopening of Fraher Field this coming Sunday with its brand new playing surface will be eagerly looked forward to the length and breath of the county.
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No loss of pride in honourable defeat
Friday, September 26, 2003
Alas it was not to be. The fairytale story of that epic Munster championship campaign will forever live in the memory, but the wheels finally came off our footballing juggernaut at rain lashed Semple Stadium last Sunday with the Dubs emerging deserving victors in an All- Ireland Under 21 semi final that brought the glory run to a grinding halt.
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Hail the history-makers
Friday, September 12, 2003
For those of us privileged to have been in Walsh Park last Wednesday evening the memories of a marvellous occasion for Waterford football will abide.
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Lismore edged out by champions
Friday, September 05, 2003
It couldn’t have been closer at the superbly appointed Leamybrien venue last Sunday as champions Mount Sion advanced to the semi-final of the senior hurling championship with a nailbiting 2-14 to 2-13 victory over Lismore.
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Lismore to throw down gaulntlet to champions
Friday, August 29, 2003
Match of the day, match of the week, and quite possibly match of the championship.
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Senior championships dominate
Friday, August 15, 2003
Incredibly we’ve had to wait until the latter half of August for the first ball to be struck in the Top Oil county senior hurling championship.
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Jim Greene wants top job
Friday, August 08, 2003
It is official. Jim Greene IS a contender for the job of Waterford senior hurling manager following the expiry of Justin McCarthy’s two year term with the championship defeat by Wexford.
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Inquests continue countywide
Friday, August 01, 2003
NEVER in the immediate aftermath of previous championship defeats have I experienced the extent of the inquests that have been held in the wake of that Nowlan Park disaster last Saturday week.
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The end of the championship road
Friday, July 25, 2003
A DEISE dream died in the seething cauldron that was Kilkenny’s Nowlan Park last Saturday evening.
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Do or die at Nowlan Park
Friday, July 18, 2003
This time there will be no cushion to break the fall. No back door through which to re enter the championship race. Its sink or swim, do or die, in what will be the white heat of battle in Nowlan Park on Saturday.
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A clash of provincial runners-up
Friday, July 11, 2003
The luck of the draw wasn’t too unkind to us, and it’s a winner- take-all showdown with Wexford in the All-Ireland hurling qualifier series on Saturday of next week with a 6.15 throw in at Nowlan Park.
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Stipped of championship title
Friday, July 04, 2003
THE hoodoo lingers. Another failed attempt, a sixth attempt to win back to back Munster senior hurling championship titles. A day of undoubted disappointment at colour splashed Semple Stadium last Sunday.
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Thurles thriller on the cards
Friday, June 27, 2003
This is what the championship year is all about. Semple Stadium on Munster hurling final day, near enough to 50,000 fans inside the magnificent stadium, the whole place a seething cauldron, an atmosphere so tense that you could cut it with a knife.
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Countdown to semple
Friday, June 20, 2003
THE countdown to a mouth watering Munster senior hurling final on June 29th is now fir ly under way. A renewal of the great Waterford/Cork Championship rivalry that extends back a century and more.
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Character and commitment carried the day
Saturday, June 14, 2003
THE sheer genius of Paul Flynn illuminated Semple Stadium last Saturday and sent Limerick crashing out of the Munster senior hurling championship semi final in a replay that never even remotely reached the splendour and spectacle of the drawn epic six days earlier.
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Victory left behind at Semple
Friday, June 06, 2003
SELDOM can a drawn result have been as disappointing in championship battle as it as for Waterford in last Sunday s Munster senior hurling semi final epic at Semple Stadium.
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A date with destiny
Friday, May 30, 2003
OUR hurlers have a date with destiny - and Limerick - at what is certain to be the seething cauldron of Semple Stadium on Sunday.
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Footballers open championship campaign
Friday, May 23, 2003
WHILE most Deise eyes are focussed on Semple Stadium and on June 1 and that mouth-watering defence of our Munster hurling title against the men from Shannonside, it's the county's senior footballers who take centre stage on Sunday.
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Decisive, but room for improvement
Friday, May 16, 2003
IN many ways it was a no win situation for us at Walsh Park last Sunday in the first defence of our Munster senior hurling championship title.
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Stradbally on football hat-trick mission
Wednesday, April 23, 2003
THERE’S still a mighty long road to travel before the 2003 county senior football champions are crowned.
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Food for thought aplenty
Thursday, April 17, 2003
ONLY a handful of fans made the journey to Kilmallock last Sunday for a game of little or no significance as far as the retention of our status in the top flight of next season’s National Hurling League is concerned.
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Munster Championship dress rehearsal?
Friday, April 11, 2003
BARRING an upset of monumental proportions on May 18th when Kerry come to Walsh Park in our first defence of the Munster hurling title so magnificently won in 2002, we’ll be journeying to Kilmallock on Sunday for the first of two jousts with Limerick in half a dozen weeks.
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A lot of confidence and pride restored
Friday, April 04, 2003
JUST what the doctor ordered after two depressing defeats on the trot. Agutsy and committed display saw off our bitter rivals of recent years in the sunshine of Walsh Park last Saturday.
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Serious cause for concern
Thursday, March 20, 2003
THE result last Sunday in Fraher Field was not a disaster of itself. But in the context of the team’s overall performance then it was as near to that as makes no significant difference.
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League challenge is reactivated
Friday, March 14, 2003
IT WAS never going to be easy bearding that determined Laois lion in its own hurling den of O’Moore Park, Portlaoise, last Sunday.
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Déise hurlers cannot afford another slip up
Friday, March 07, 2003
THE opening round defeat against Kilkenny has left our hurlers with crucial leeway to make up in the National League, and hopefully a positive start in that direction will be made when they journey to O’Moore Park in Portlaoise on Sunday to take on the home county.
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Weakened side no match for champions
Friday, February 28, 2003
EVEN before referee Ger Harrington got the action under way at sun splashed Walsh Park last Sunday, there was an element of inevitability about the outcome.
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Dubious late free denies Mount Sion
Friday, February 21, 2003
WHAT a cruel way to bow out at the penultimate stage of an All-Ireland championship.
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Good luck Mount Sion
Friday, February 14, 2003
IT’S a long road to Mullingar from the bowels of the Decies, but I suspect it’s a route that will shift a fair degree of Waterford traffic this weekend as fans countywide make the journey to Cusack Park.
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Feast of scores in clash of champions
Thursday, February 06, 2003
THOSE fans who braved a bitingly cold afternoon at the windswept Passage East venue last Saturday were well rewarded when champions of county and club in Munster threw down the hurling gauntlet to each other.
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A lot done, more to do!
Thursday, January 30, 2003
NOW where did you hear that headline before? Oh yes, it was a famous (some might say infamous) general election slogan of last year, but in the context of the county senior hurlers it most definitely applies given last Sunday’s outing against WIT at the superbly appointed Ardmore venue.
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Footballers lose little in defeat
Thursday, January 23, 2003
THE surprise is that even two hundred hardy souls braved the atrocious elements in Clonmel last Sunday for Waterford’s McGrath Sup semi-final football joust with Tipperary.
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Getting down to serious business
Friday, January 17, 2003
TWENTY-FOUR hours ago the county senior hurlers, or least those of them who undertook the trip to the Moroccan sunshine, returned home.
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A sincere ‘thank you’ to Peter Power
Thursday, January 09, 2003
THE end of an era within the world of Déise gaeldom has well and truly been reached with the retirement of Peter Power as fulltime hurling coach to the primary and secondary schools, juvenile clubs, and indeed the summer camps the length and breath of the county.
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West tops in titles won
Thursday, January 02, 2003
REFLECTING on the year that has just ended it was, in terms of county titles won, a very successful season for the West division.
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Not a weekend contest in sight
Friday, December 20, 2002
IS apathy tearing at the very heart of the GAA in our county? Its surely a fair question to pose given that at this weekend’s County Board convention in Dungarvan there won’t be a contest in sight.
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An uneventful convention
Friday, December 13, 2002
BYANY criteria, last Thursday night’s Western Board convention in Dungarvan was one of the least eventful in the seventy-five-year history of the board.
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Magnificent Mount Sion
Friday, December 06, 2002
NOT EVEN Bravehart could have emulated the hurling heroics of the magnificent Mount Sioners as they rampaged their way to an epic two point victory over Clare’s Sixmilebridge in a compelling Munster club hurling final at rain and wind lashed Semple Stadium last Sunday.
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Welcome home Clashmore
Friday, November 29, 2002
AFTER the briefest of absences, Clashmore are back where they rightfully belong, and will take their place in the 2003 county senior football championship following last Sunday’s richly deserved 2-8 to 0-11 victory over Clonea in the intermediate final at Kill.
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Hurling glory on the double for the West
Friday, November 22, 2002
A DAY of unbridled glory for Ardmore and Geraldines at Fraher Field last Saturday with the winning of the county intermediate and junior hurling titles respectively.
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West seeks glory in five county finals
Friday, November 08, 2002
WHAT an action packed weekend is in prospect. No fewer than five mouth-watering county finals, three of them at Walsh Park, with Fraher Field hosting the other two, including the replay of last Saturday’s magnificent drawn senior football decider between Stradbally and the Nire.
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West seeks glory in five county finals
Friday, November 01, 2002
WHAT an action packed weekend is in prospect. No fewer than five mouth-watering county finals, three of them at Walsh Park, with Fraher Field hosting the other two, including the replay of last Saturday’s magnificent drawn senior football decider between Stradbally and the Nire.
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Finals day at Fraher Field
Friday, October 18, 2002
SENIOR and minor county football finals, with a mouthwatering junior hurling decider thrown in for good measure, should suffice to bring the fans out in vast numbers to Fraher Field on Sunday.
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Abbeyside and Ardmore in Intermediate Hurling final
Friday, October 11, 2002
ABBEYSIDE and Ardmore will contest next Sunday’s divisional intermediate hurling championship final following their respective victories of Ring and St. Mary’s in last Saturday’s doubleheader at Fraher Field.
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Glory for Geraldines and Kilgobinet in junior final
Friday, October 04, 2002
A PERFECT day weatherwise, an equally perfect playing surface, and a big, vocal, and enthusiastic crowd, set the scene for an afternoon of lively and hugely entertaining fare at Fraher Field last Saturday afternoon when the divisional junior football and hurling A championships were won Kilgobinet and Geraldines respectively.
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Hurling heartbreak for luckless Lismore
Friday, September 27, 2002
NO Joy at all for the West in last Saturday’s county senior hurling semi-finals which set the scene for another mouth-watering final showdown between Ballygunner and Mount Sion at Walsh Park on Sunday week.
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East versus West in hurling semis
Friday, September 20, 2002
IT’S East versus West on the double at Fraher Field on Saturday evening, with a place in the county senior hurling final the lucrative prize for the victors.
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Ballyduff join Lismore in semis
Friday, September 13, 2002
THEY won’t be too many peoples fancy to win the title, but no one can take from Ballyduff Upper’s brave and battling performance in seeing off the challenge of their namesake club in a really exciting county senior hurling championship quarter final at Fraher Field last Saturday evening.
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Make or break weekend games in senior championships
Friday, September 06, 2002
THE DUST is gradually settling on the county senior hurling and football championships, and this weekend should confirm the semi-final line up in hurling when the two Ballyduffs, Upper and Lower, come head to head at Fraher Field on Saturday evening (6.30pm) in the losers group final.
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Light at the end of the tunnel
Friday, August 30, 2002
HAVING been critical of both the County and Divisional Boards at the valuable weekends lost to the domestic championships during the county senior hurlers odyssey, it’s only right and proper that credit is now handed on as they relentlessly pursue the recovery of much of that lost ground.
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County and Divisional Boards in major drive to make up for ‘lost’ time
Friday, August 23, 2002
With many of our domestic championships at a virtual standstill as the county senior hurlers continued their surge towards All-Ireland glory, county and divisional boards are now engaging in major drives to make up for much lost time in an effort co complete all county finals before the arrival of the depths of winter.
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Hour is nigh for Waterford hurlers
Friday, August 09, 2002
THE hour is nigh. Just days to go to an All-Ireland senior hurling semi-final that has captured the imagination of a nation, and the hearts and minds of a county. Our county.
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