A centre which has played a significant role in scientific, religious, learning, and economic life through the ages is set to celebrate 25 years of Heritage Town status.

To say Fintan O’Connor is your conventional inter-county hurling selector wouldn’t just be inaccurate: it would be wrong.

Waterford 1-21 Cork 1-11: Shane Bennett didn’t travel on the team bus to Páirc Uí Rinn, his father Pat transporting him across the border.

As expected, Brian Cody was last night reappointed for a 17th consecutive season in charge as Kilkenny senior hurling manager.

The Department of Education is to pay an "above the market value" €470,000 for a former Christian Brothers monastery in west Waterford.

I am amazed that when it comes down to money, principles and responsibilities are suddenly forgotten.

I am aghast at the notion that Eirgrid would even consider the route through scenic Lismore, Co Waterford as an option to upgrade the electricity grid for Ireland.

Sunday in Croke Park will be a proud day for those associated with Blackwater Community School in Lismore, Waterford.

Cork did exceptionally well in this year’s Leaving Certificate exams, with students from four schools achieving eight A1s.

Blackwater CS (Lismore)0-11 Dungarvan CBS 0-8

DEFENDING champions Árd Scoil Rís face a tricky opener in the first round of next season’s Munster Colleges Dr Harty Cup.

THURLES CBS survived a late rally by Blackwater Community School at Clonmel yesterday to book their place in the knockout stages of the Harty Cup after Christmas.

THIS all-Waterford Dr Harty Cup Munster Colleges hurling tie at Fraher Field, Dungarvan, yesterday may not have been a classic, but it was a feisty and no-nonsense local derby that ended in a deserved victory for Lismore’s Blackwater Community School.

THE GAA has to address the issue of people being paid to manage club teams, former Clare goalkeeper Seamus Durack warned at the Bord Gais Energy-sponsored Munster GAA awards presentation on Saturday night.

Thurles CBS 0-11 Our Lady’s (Templemore) 0-5

GOOD times for Denis Ring’s Blackwater Community School in Lismore.

BLACKWATER Community School, Lismore, defeated Clonmel opposition at the Clonmel Park Hotel last evening, winning impressively with a score of 104.

DAIRY scientists and agri advisers are forever producing systems to help farmers get more milk from their dairy herds.

NOT only has Christian Wirtz collected two senior hurling medals since arriving from Germany less than a year ago, he became one of the country’s highest-scoring Leaving Certificate students this week.

NEXT year’s Dr Harty Cup will have one new entrant following the decision at the Munster Colleges AGM to allow a number of schools in Limerick city to amalgamate.

TWO inseparable friends born on the same day, but only a year apart, will be buried today as a distraught community tries to come to terms with the loss of the two young men, who died in a crash over the weekend.

HURLING takes a back seat in one corner of Waterford on Friday night.

John Murphy