Jordan Norris Some things in life are abstruse. I often lie awake at night, pondering the difficult questions life has to offer, the ones it can never seem to provide any semblance of an answer to. This week, I found myself scratching my head at another abstruse instance. It wasn’t along the usual calibre, but I...
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All-Ireland Senior Ladies Football Championship
All-Ireland Senior Ladies Football Championship
Dubs survive Déise test Dublin 0-17 Waterford 1-10 Waterford’s interest in this year’s All-Ireland Ladies Football Championship is over after just one game, but not without giving a Dublin side chasing a fourth All-Ireland Title in a row a massive fright in Baltinglass. Mick Bohan’s Dublin had a fantastic start to...
Fairyhouse win for Klassy Kay
Fairyhouse win for Klassy Kay
On the same day that Joseph O’Brien won the Melbourne Cup with Twilight Payment, there was also racing at Fairyhouse on Tuesday and Willie Mullins saddled Klassy Kay to win the Jetaway.ie At Artic Tack Stud Handicap Hurdle in the hands of reigning champion jockey Paul Townend. On her first start for handler Mullins,...
All-Ireland Senior Camogie Championship
All-Ireland Senior Camogie Championship
Waterford reach knockout stages for third year running Waterford 2-17 Westmeath 0-10 Thomas Keane Waterford recorded a resounding 13-point win over Westmeath at Mullingar on Sunday afternoon last to reach the knockout stages of the All-Ireland Senior Camogie Championship for the third year in a row. Waterford will...
2020 Munster Senior Hurling Championship Final
2020 Munster Senior Hurling Championship Final
DON’T LOOK BACK IN ANGER Brian Flannery Waterford hope to bridge a ten-year gap on Sunday to claim the Munster senior hurling title in this strangest of hurling seasons. The Covid19 pandemic saw a redrafting of the hurling championship with a return to a previous structure with Waterford fortunate to be drawn...
Will Connors’ Waterford Connections
Will Connors’ Waterford Connections
Jordan Norris A Leinster and Ireland star, and a man of Stradbally roots – Will Connors’ rise to prominence in recent weeks has been welcomed from all corners of the country. The 24-year-old openside flanker starred on his Ireland debut in their Six Nations’ victory over Italy, taking man-of-the-match accolades...
Coach in the Corner: Perri Williams, St Senans AC
Coach in the Corner: Perri Williams, St Senans AC
Perri Williams has been involved in athletics since her dad formed St Senans AC in 1977. Perri has competed nationally and internationally since her first All-Ireland championships at the age of 12 and although a diagnosis of rheumatoid arthritis and sjogrens disease in the late 1980’s forced a premature retirement,...
Rainbow Hall To Riches – A Dylan Moran Story
Rainbow Hall To Riches – A Dylan Moran Story
Like many, Dylan is convinced the future of Waterford boxing lies in safe hands with brother Mason (12). Jordan Norris The world of boxing is a very lonely one. It’s cruel, tough and not for the faint hearted. This was known to Dylan Moran all his life, but never more so than on June 28th last. 10-0 professionally,...
Uproar As Waterford FC Lay Off All Staff
Uproar As Waterford FC Lay Off All Staff
Jordan Norris A cloud of controversy has loomed over the future of Waterford FC this week with the news that the club have taken the decision to temporarily lay off all members of staff. The news was broken to those affected via an email from General Manager Jack Power on Monday evening, May 3rd. The letter sent to...
All Quiet on the GAA Scene
All Quiet on the GAA Scene
Thomas Keane The G.A.A. is set to experience its biggest headache in its 136 year history after it was forced to suspend all playing and training activities until March 29 at the earliest due to the Coronavirus. For the G.A.A. to face periods where no games are played is not a new thing. In the past we have seen...
Thomas Ahern Named Among World Rugby’s Top Prodigies
Thomas Ahern Named Among World Rugby’s Top Prodigies
Jordan Norris Ardmore man Thomas Ahern has been named among world rugby’s top prodigies in a list released this week which ranks the top 50 U-20 stars in the world. Ahern, who plays for Munster Academy and stands at 6’9 – comes in at 15th on the list following a spate of outstanding performances for Ireland of...
Horse Racing Aerclub wins again at Dundalk
Horse Racing Aerclub wins again at Dundalk
Neil O’Donnell Henry de Bromhead, fresh from his two-timer at the Cheltenham festival, struck with Aerclub in the Love Your Mum Median Auction Race for three-year-olds on the all-weather track at Dundalk on Friday afternoon. Aerclub was always well positioned under Wayne Lordan and the market-leader made his way to...
