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Coad’s Colts: Paddy Coad (front middle) with Rovers in 1956. Liam Tuohy is second
from right back row.
The 1975 Munster hurling team which lost by a point to Leinster in the Railway Cup final.
Back row, from left: Pat Hartigan, Noel O’Dwyer, Seamus Hogan, Enda O’Connor, Joe
McKenna, Willie Walsh, Seamus Hannon (Waterford) and Ger Loughnane.
Front, from left: Francis Loughnane, Seamus Durack, Gerald McCarthy (ex-Deise boss),
Eamon Cregan, Liam King, Jim Kehoe and Pat McGrath (Waterford).
|Photo: With thanks to Sportsfile/Connolly Collection and Frank Burke
ACEC, Waterford Factory League finalists, July 1970. Back, from left: Noel Wallace,
Tony Kelly, Noel O’Connor, Milo McLoughlin, Gene Roche, John Falconer; front: Berto White,
Paddy Cunningham, Noel O’Neill, Jimmy Barnes, Liam Ryan, Joxer McGrath.
ACEC Ireland Ltd, since taken over by ABB Transformers, was established in 1951
to manufacture small transformers for the ESB rural electrification scheme and grew
to comprise three separate divisions: transformer manufacture and fluorescent lighting in Waterford,
and engineering and switchgear manufacture in Dublin. | Photo: Eoin Murphy
Some of Waterford’s finest players were among the prizewinners in the annual
Munster Express-sponsored competition at Waterford Golf Club in 1972. Club
Captain Dr Tony Lee (second right) presents the winner’s cheque to George Walsh,
who was to win the Senior Scratch Cup the following year. Mr J.J. Walsh (RIP) of
The Munster Express is on the right, while the picture also includes, from left,
Michael O’Brien, Noel Colfer and Nicky Brennan (RIP).
Tramore Rangers AFC committee members pictured at their 1975 dinner dance.
Back, from left: Tommy Ryan (still the club groundsman), Pat Maher, Paddy Curran;
(front) Tommy O’Rourke, Blaise Hannigan and Robert Dooley. [Photo: Eoin Murphy]
Members of the Dungarvan Athletic Club who took part in the ‘Run for Ireland’
Dungarvan stage pictured with Tony Culley-Foster, back in the early 1980’s.
[Photo: John Kiely]
Blues greats Alfie Hale, Paul Morrissey and Peter Thomas at the Waterford Vintners’
Ball in November, 1971. [Photo: Eoin Murphy]