Vote for your favourite Noel Browne photo Catherine Power Noel Browne has been taking brilliant sports photos for the Munster Express for more than a decade. Each year Noel picks his favourite photos and they are usually featured in our Sports Supplement. This year we are turning Noel’s Pick 6 into a competition and...
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Moran hangs up inter-county boots
Moran hangs up inter-county boots
After 143 games for Waterford in League and Championship, Waterford senior hurler Kevin Moran (34) announced his inter-county retirement last week. The De La Salle clubman retires with two Munster titles, two National Hurling League titles and two All-Stars to his name. The midfielder also represented his county in...
Lohan: “Waterford have come on again”
Lohan: “Waterford have come on again”
Jordan Norris Clare manager Brian Lohan says that Waterford have pushed on again since the counties met in last year’s All-Ireland Quarter Final. The Deise won out on a scoreline of 3-27 to 3-18 versus the Banner on that occasion, and speaking to the Munster Express, Lohan says that Liam Cahill’s side have grown...
Championship curtain-raiser presents ample opportunity
Championship curtain-raiser presents ample opportunity
Munster Senior Hurling Championship Quarter-Final Preview Waterford v Clare (Semple Stadium, Sunday 3:30) Jordan Norris Waterford face Clare in the Munster Championship curtain-raiser at Semple Stadium, and despite some notable injury concerns – one would imagine the Deise should have enough to see off Brian Lohan’s...
Down With The Doomsday Talk
Down With The Doomsday Talk
Jordan Norris It’s been little more than a fortnight since the return of hurling, but our national game now finds itself in ‘crisis’. Or at least some people would have you believe such. With the growing numbers of frees, the odd rule change here and there, players ‘wrapped in cotton wool’ – ‘the game’s not the...
Déise display battling qualities despite defeat
Déise display battling qualities despite defeat
Brian Flannery Reports Waterford’s second defeat in the National Hurling League while not unexpected showed again the battling qualities of this new look Waterford side.Liam Cahill and his management team opted for nine changes from the narrow defeat to Tipperary for the trip to Limerick. They rolled the dice...
Déise no match for dominant champions
Déise no match for dominant champions
Hurling League Division 1A Limerick 1-21 Waterford 1-17 Brian Flannery Reports Waterford’s final group game in Division 1A of the Allianz national Hurling League ended in a four-point defeat, at LIT Gaelic Grounds against their hosts Limerick.This victory puts Limerick into a league semi-final while Waterford has the...
13 Man Déise fall to first defeat
13 Man Déise fall to first defeat
National Hurling League Division 1 Tipperary 0-24 Waterford 2-16 Brian Flannery Reports Waterford suffered their first defeat in this seasons Allianz National Hurling League when going down by two points to All-Ireland champions Tipperary at Semple Stadium. By the end of this game referee Sean Stack had brandished...
Just a perfect day for Cahill’s charges
Just a perfect day for Cahill’s charges
National Hurling League Division 1A Waterford 0-17 Galway 0-16 Brian Flannery Rerpots Waterford’s perfect start in Division 1A of the Allianz National Hurling League continued last Sunday with a gritty single point victory over Galway at Walsh Park.This third win in a row sees Waterford sharing top position in the...
Carton and McGrath deliver UL five-in-a-row
Carton and McGrath deliver UL five-in-a-row
Ashbourne Cup Final University of Limerick 3-14 University College Cork 0-12 Daragh Ó Conchúir Reports UL became the fifth college to complete the UPMC Ashbourne Cup five-in-a-row, emerging deserving winners over a gutsy but outgunned UCC at WIT Arena in Carriganore on Sunday. It was a bitter pill to swallow for the...
Stormy Weather blows fixtures away
Stormy Weather blows fixtures away
Brian Flannery Storm Dennis caused havoc with the weekend’s fixtures with Waterford’s trip to Limerick first postponed from the original Saturday afternoon slot to Sunday afternoon before eventually being cancelled altogether.The Waterford hurlers were already on the team bus waiting to depart on Saturday afternoon...
Toughest Test To Date For The Deise
Toughest Test To Date For The Deise
Jordan Norris Reports An away trip in the Allianz National Hurling League Division 1A is never easy, but a trip to the Gaelic Grounds is up there with the hardest of the lot. Liam Cahill’s Waterford will head to Limerick at the top of the pile in the Hurling Leagues, having seen off the challenges of Cork and...