As buccaneering centre-back Shane Briggs said in receiving the TG4 man-of-the-match award, Waterford left Croke Park with...
Author: Jamie OKeeffe
No pushing immovable Treaty stone it seems
No pushing immovable Treaty stone it seems
When JP McManus was a major shareholder in Manchester United he and Coolmore chief John Magnier made life hell for Alex Ferguson...
Kiss of life
Kiss of life
What SAF calls “squeaky bum time” is starting to cause a smell of fear, as well as loathing, around Stamford Bridge. Man Utd’s...
Show them the money
Show them the money
There’s little doubt that in terms of profile and putting bums on seats the GAA has sold this year’s National Leagues short,...
Black humour
Black humour
The story of a woman being arrested at Liverpool’s John Lennon Airport the other week after trying to check in her dead husband...
‘Bridge Blackwater tourism gap’
‘Bridge Blackwater tourism gap’
West Waterford TD John Deasy and his East Cork party colleague, Deputy David Stanton, have jointly called for a new approach to...
Weight off his mind
Weight off his mind
It’s not often you back the runner-up in the Grand National and yet you’re glad you lost. Having stuck a few bob each way on...
Promotion Emotion
Promotion Emotion
It was fitting that John Kiely was there to share in the lads’ achievement, having long urged them (like his late friend Greg...
Messi-ah touched by God
Messi-ah touched by God
When Lionel Messi was aged eleven doctors diagnosed him with a growth hormone deficiency. The prescribed course of treatment...
Tiger reverts to type
Tiger reverts to type
Without doubting the sincerity of Phil Mickelson’s motives in embracing his ill wife Amy immediately after so splendidly...
Ambrose, 103, waits for State to advance Mt Congreve plans
Ambrose, 103, waits for State to advance Mt Congreve plans
The remarkable Ambrose Christian Congreve, CBE, who celebrated his 103rd birthday on Sunday last, is still waiting for the...
Portlaw stunned by death of two kayakers beside old cotton mill
Portlaw stunned by death of two kayakers beside old cotton mill
The deaths of two kayakers in Portlaw, County Waterford on Wednesday evening has shocked communities at both ends of the island,...
