Archive for the ‘GAA Hurling’ Category
Old Boro prevail despite Ryan treble
Senior Hurling Championship Group A
Dungarvan 0-22
Tallow 3-12
Thomas Ryan hit 3-6 for Tallow in the opening game of a double header player at Fraher Field on Sunday last. However, the inter-county star still ended up on the losing side thanks to Gavin Crotty’s winning point for Dungarvan in the third minute of additional time.
Crotty’s late [...]
Sion tops in City battle
Waterford Senior Hurling Championship Group B
Mount Sion 3-17
Roanmore 0-13
Brian Flannery at Walsh Park
Mount Sion got their 2019 Senior Hurling Championship campaign off to the perfect start with a 13-point victory over city rivals Roanmore at Walsh Park last Saturday.Two second half goals from former county minor Evan McGrath proved crucial in propelling the Monastery [...]
Déise no match for confident Limerick
National Hurling League Final
Waterford 0-19
Limerick 1-24
Brian Flannery at Croke Park
All-Ireland champions Limerick added the Allianz National Hurling League title on Sunday last to the Championship crown they won last August. The Treaty side were good value for their eight-point victory in a game where they never trailed in front of an official attendance of [...]
MUCH DONE, MORE TO DO
Powerful Limerick too strong for Waterford in NHL decider
There can’t have been too many quibbles from Déise supporters on the spin home from Croker on Sunday. In adding the League title to their Liam MacCarthy success, Limerick demonstrated the sort of lean and hungry look to their game that was, for so long, the [...]
Fanning’s delight as Croker awaits
A delighted Paraic Fanning saluted his victorious Waterford side, who superbly weathered the loss of Mikey Kearney to press on for a deserved National Hurling League Semi-Final win on Sunday last. Reflecting on his side’s second win over the Tribesmen in three weeks, the Waterford manager described his side’s progression to a national decider as [...]
THE RIGHT STUFF
Waterford show mettle to advance to League Final
How good was that? A victory engineered through collective character and unflinching will saw Waterford get the better of Galway for the second time in three weeks. At the turn of 2018, we’d have bitten off any hand making such an offer in the wake of last [...]
Fanning keen to push boundaries
Déise manager thrilled by Waterford’s 14-point win
Paraic Fanning ought to be delighted with how his initial months in the Waterford job have fared. Indeed, it’s been as encouraging an opening trio of months as any Déise senior boss has enjoyed over the past 20 years. As noted last week, the body language of players and [...]
LEAGUES APART
Waterford put Clare to the sword to reach NHL semis
Two successive run-outs at Walsh Park and two wins in the bag: repeat that feat come May and June and Waterford’s senior hurlers may well in gravy. “Only the League”, someone who in all likelihood was at neither the Galway and Clare matches might argue (with [...]
FANNING’S PRIDE IN DEISE RESOLVE
Paraic Fanning was justly pleased by Waterford’s fine, albeit wind-assisted recovery which saw them overcome Galway deep in second half stoppage time on Sunday last. “I don’t think anyone watching could realise how hard it was to play in those conditions in the first half and when you look at how hard Galway found the [...]
DEISE DIG DEEP
Injury-time goal seals dramatic home victory
The biting wind had the fourth estate on its collective toetips outside the team dressing rooms on Sunday last following a match which literally blew one way and the other. As players showered and mentors traded post-match sentiments, Waterford’s walking wounded assembled against the relative shelter of the team’s [...]