Archive for the ‘Fullback’ Category
Sturdy shoots
A youthful Waterford’s slender win against a near-full-strength Galway in sun-drenched Walsh Park on Sunday showed that the balance of power is slowly but surely shifting to the county’s new generation.
Fairway to heaven
A priest close to the great greenkeeper in the sky is Fr Johnny Condon, who celebrated the SEVENTH hole-in-one of his career in the Chernobyl Classic at Carrick-on-Suir Golf Club last Friday.
Faugh an Bheallach!
Old traditions die hard, they say. Well, road bowls (or bouls as they’re commonly pronounced in these parts) have been played in the east Waterford village of Fenor since the 1950s.
Horse sense
Saturday’s Grand National was not a good day for the Sport of Kings.
Up Waterford, Down Dungarvan?
Initially thinking it was an April Fool, I was alerted to a recent polemic from ‘Phoenix’ in the Waterford News & Star which saw him all a flutter over countless perceived injustices perpetrated against the city, and then take a few swipes this way.
Hardy boyos
I heard plenty about Andy Fleming growing up. Mick Hayes was a family friend and farmed a few fields across from us in Butlerstown.
House for white elephants
Telecommunications tycoon, media magnate and Moriarty Tribunal arch-critic, Denis O’Brien has his finger in more pies than Mr Kipling’s tasters.
Not so pretty vacant
The FAI may be breathing a sigh of relief to be guaranteed €40m from 2014-18 under the new Uefa centralisation TV deal, but it needs to get its ticket pricing policy right asap.