Waterford Senior Football Championship Quarter-Final Fourmilewater 1-15 An Rinn 2-11 (AET) Jordan Norris Reports Fourmilewater are through to the semi-finals of the Senior Football Championship following a remarkable comeback versus An Rinn. The Nire men trailed by ten points at one stage, but a solid second-half...
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De La Salle crowned Champions
De La Salle crowned Champions
All-Ireland Camogie 7s De La Salle defeated Waterford rivals Gailltir 4-5 to 3-5 in the All Ireland 7s camogie final at Kilmacud Crokes on Saturday evening. De La Salle finished runners-up in 2018 but Beth Carton got her hands on the cup this time around. Star forwards Carton and Abby Flynn raised green flags in a...
Waterford ease into All-Ireland final
Waterford ease into All-Ireland final
All-Ireland u16 ‘B’ Camogie Semi-Final Waterford 3-17 Carlow 1-05 Waterford will face Limerick in the U16 All-Ireland camogie championship final on August 25th following their facile win over Carlow in the semi-final at Freshford on Sunday. Waterford, who topped their group by winning all their games in the...
Return of the Old Guard
Return of the Old Guard
Brian Flannery Reports This Sunday sees old foes Kilkenny and Tipperary once again competing for the All-Ireland hurling title at Croke Park. While this years’ finalists have won more Liam McCarthy titles between them than the combined total of all other counties; it is nonetheless somewhat of a surprise that we see...
Player Power at play?
Player Power at play?
Brian Flannery Reports Well that was a busy week in the Sunny South East. A week-long World GAA Games at WIT Carriganore followed by the ‘Altogether Now’ music festival and annual Spraoi weekend.My only brush with the music festival was a hasty retreat from traffic gridlock past Carrick-on-Suir. I’m reliably informed...
Galway dig deep to deny Déise
Galway dig deep to deny Déise
All Ireland Senior Camogie Quarter Final Galway 2-16 Waterford 2-8 Waterford suffered heartbreak for the second year in a row at the quarter-final stages of the All-Ireland Senior Camogie Championship as they went under to a strong Galway side in the second of two games played at Thurles on Saturday evening...
The 2019 Renault GAA World Games at the WIT Arena, Waterford
The 2019 Renault GAA World Games at the WIT Arena, Waterford
Sustainability, self-sufficiency, inclusivity Positive growth in International Gaelic Games driven by native born participants By Eoghan Tuohey If you entered the candle-lit confines of the billiards room in Hayes’ Hotel in Thurles on the day the GAA was founded in November 1884, and informed the attendees that some...
Jackman’s endless pursuit of optimal performance
Jackman’s endless pursuit of optimal performance
Daragh Ó Conchúir Reports Franky Mulloy, a biomechanics lecturer at University of Lincoln School of Sport and Exercise Science, probably wasn’t far wrong when he tweeted that the opening presentation of the College Research Showcase was most likely, “the first academic presentation ever to open with a Camogie stick...
2019 Renault GAA World Games
2019 Renault GAA World Games
A celebration of our global Gaelic Games community July 28th Parade Waterford City, July 29th to Aug 1st in WIT Arena A chief aim of the GAA is to provide the opportunity for lifelong participation and engagement in Gaelic Games to as many people as possible, regardless of where they call home.Our national games have...
Dominant display by classy Déise
Dominant display by classy Déise
All-Ireland Camogie Championship Waterford 5-9 Meath 0-11 Waterford are within touching distance of reaching the knockout stages of the All-Ireland Senior Camogie Championship for the second year in a row after they recorded a comprehensive win over Meath at Pairc Tailteann on Sunday afternoon last.Donal O’Rourke’s...
Waterford and Tipp to meet again after match abandoned.
Waterford and Tipp to meet again after match abandoned.
ALL-IRELAND SENIOR CAMOGIE CHAMPIONSHIP- ROUND 1 Waterford and Tipperary must do battle again as Saturday’s All Ireland camogie opener was abandoned due to a serious neck injury to Tipp forward Nicole Walsh. It happened in the 57th minute but there was still eleven minutes to play according to the officials....
Fanning: “We have to regroup for Tipp.”
Fanning: “We have to regroup for Tipp.”
“Ah sure, very disappointed,” was the natural first reaction offered by Paraic Fanning in the wake of Waterford’s one-point Munster Hurling Championship reversal to Clare on Sunday last.“We really, really came strong in the second half there and we had a few chances we didn’t take; there were one or two frees that...
