Archive for the ‘GAA Football’ Category
SCOIL MHUIRE MAKE FOOTBALL’S ‘A’ LIST!
All-Ireland Ladies Post Primary Schools ‘A’ Football Final
Scoil Mhuire (Carrick-on-Suir) 4-16
Coláiste Iosagáin (Dublin) 2-8
Cóilín Duffy at Nowlan Park
There was excitement aplenty as Scoil Mhuire Carrick on Suir delivered their first ever LIDL All-Ireland Ladies Football PPS Senior A title in impressive fashion at Nowlan Park on Monday week last.
At the famous Kilkenny ground, [...]
DISAPPOINTMENT FOR WIT IN LYNCH CUP
Cóilín Duffy reports
There was disappointment all round for Waterford Ladies Footballers at the third level O’Connor/Giles and Lynch Cup semi-finals and finals hosted by IT Tralee and John Mitchels GAA Club in Tralee at the weekend.
WIT flew the flag in the Lynch Cup, but were unlucky in their semi-final on Friday, losing out to eventual [...]
STIFF REBEL TEST AWAITS THE DEISE
Munster Under-21 Football Championship Semi-Final
(Waterford v Kerry, Wednesday, 7.30pm, Fraher Field)
Dermot Keyes reports
Waterford face a major test in Fraher Field tomorrow (Wednesday) night when they take on Cork in the EirGrid-sponsored Munster Under-21 Semi-Final.
Cork come into the match in the wake of an impressive 0-23 to 0-8 dismissal of Clare at Cooraclare, and given [...]
LONG TRIP HOME FROM THE GLENS
National Football League Division Four
Antrim 1-16
Waterford 0-6
David Mohan at Corrigan Park
WATERFORD’S search for a second win in this year’s Allianz National Football League continues as Tom McGlinchey’s men fell to a 13-point defeat to Antrim at Corrigan Park in Belfast on Sunday.
The Deisemen were punished for a slow start and although they were to [...]
Waterford hang on to defeat Wexford
National Ladies Football League Division Three
Wexford 3-7
Waterford 1-17
Waterford hung on to eke out a narrow win over Wexford in the Lidl National League Division Three to preserve their unbeaten status and their position at the top of the table at Gusserane O’Rahilly’s pitch on Sunday last.
Waterford were quickly out of the blocks [...]
Croker footballing debutants honoured
Dermot Keyes in Lemybrien
he first Waterford senior football team to play a League or Championship match at Croke Park were recognised at a special function held at Crotty’s Bar, Lemybrien on Sunday night, exactly 50 years to the day they faced Dublin at Headquarters.
Honouring the players at Crotty’s, GAA President Aogán Ó Fearghail acknowledged [...]
Outrageous Misfortune
National Football League Division Four
Waterford 0-11
Wexford 0-12
Dermot Keyes at Fraher Field
flush-cheeked Tom McGlinchey didn’t conceal his frustration with referee Sean Hehir in the wake of the cruellest defeat Waterford’s footballers have endured over the course of both this and last year’s League campaign.
A magnificent second half recovery, during which the battling Deisemen [...]
Waterford maintain their winning start
Ladies National Football League Division three
Waterford 4-13
Leitrim 3-3
Thomas Keane reports
Pat Sullivan’s Waterford Senior Ladies Football Team remain unbeaten in 2016 after they made it four wins from four games in this years league at Ardmore on Sunday afternoon last where they had 13 points to spare over a depleted Leitrim Side.
While Waterford will be happy [...]
Waterford’s Class of 66 to be honoured in March
aterford GAA in conjunction with Club Deise (Waterford Supporters Club) 50th Anniversary of the first Waterford Football team to play in Croke Park.
The game between Waterford and Dublin was played on March 6th 1966 so exactly 50 years to the day, a function (meal/music) will be held in Crottys Bar, Leamybrien on Sunday next, March [...]
LATE DEISE SURGE SECURES VICTORY
National Football League Division Four
Carlow 0-15
Waterford 3-15
Tony Ryan at Dr Cullen Park
Waterford’s footballers put the wrongs of the previous two outings to right when they outscored Carlow in Netwatch Cullen Park last Sunday in the final 10 minutes by 1-4 to 0-0 to deservingly take their opening National League victory.
At times during [...]