Waterford are unlikely to be represented in this year’s Munster club senior football championship.

Take it as a given that Thomas O’Gorman will pick up Colm Cooper on Sunday.

Waterford’s pre-eminent football clubs have always been viewed in a different light to the county’s flagship side.

This Thursday evening Castleknock play in their first senior football semi-final. Formed in 1998, they truly are the nouveau riche of Dublin GAA. Their story is a heartening one, their defiance to make their presence felt in west Dublin all the more impressive with the mammoth St Brigid’s for company.

Cobh Ramblers 0 Drogheda Utd 2: A couple of well taken goals in two second-half minutes in this SSE Airtricity First Division play off, first leg put Drogheda well on course for a return to the Premier League.

Waterford football has been rocked by the decision of players from county championship-winning side Stradbally to snub Tom McGlinchey’s senior set-up for the 2016 season.

It has always been an article of faith of Nemo Rangers they don’t ‘just’ win county titles.

Stradbally (Waterford) 0-5 Nemo Rangers (Cork) 1-13: Once showered and changed, the Stradbally players made the short walk from Fraher Field to The Park Hotel for a couple of well overdue pints.

Stradbally 0-8 Ballinacourty 0-6 

Of course Colm O’Hare would prefer to be crossing the whitewash with Ballinacourty in Fraher Field this evening. Of course it would mean more to be donning the green and white hooped jersey than patrolling the sideline with manager Mattie Kiely.

De La Salle ended Lismore’s 46-year stay in the senior ranks with a 1-18 to 1-12 triumph in Saturday night’s Waterford SHC relegation play-off at Fraher Field.

UCC have the possibility of making history tomorrow night when they face Waterford in the McGrath Cup final (Fraher Field, 6pm), but it’s arguably a distraction they could have done without.

Tom McGlinchey did not recognise the number on his phone. On the other end was then Waterford chairman, Tom Cunningham. The offer was to take charge of the Waterford senior footballers.

The Nire manager Benji Whelan believes an innovative approach to their physical preparations is the secret behind their progression to Sunday’s Munster club football decider against Austin Stacks.

The Nire 0-11 Stradbally 0-6

2013 intermediate champions De La Salle have reached the Waterford SFC quarter-finals after a tense 2-8 to 1-10 win over Ballinameela in Fraher Field last night.

There was a time when Waterford’s presence in the Munster MFC was almost incidental, tussling to avoid the tag of being the worst in the province.

No Waterford team has ever won a Munster Club football championship.

TODAY:

An injury-time intervention from sub Shane Walsh guided The Nire past Kilrossanty (1-16 to 1-15) in a gripping quarter-final on Saturday night.

Two years ago, St Saviours and Ballinameela faced off in a battle to avoid the drop from top flight football but this weekend both booked their places in the Waterford SFC quarter-finals.

Kerry pair Eoin Brosnan and Jonathan Lyne are unlikely to be fully fit in time for Kerry’s Munster SFC quarter-final clash with Tipperary at Fitzgerald Stadium on Sunday (2pm).

Organisers of the Electric Picnic music and arts festival have tonight announced more acts for this year's event.

Kerry legend Pat Spillane has called on new Kingdom manager Eamonn Fitzmaurice to return to the county’s traditional playing style.

Hurling with the Barrs.

The contrast in styles could hardly be more stark – which makes Sunday’s AIB Munster Club SFC final between Dr Crokes and Castlehaven one of the most eagerly anticipated in years.

Former Waterford football star Eddie Rockett is set to return to the county squad.

Dr Crokes and Kerry star Eoin Brosnan admitted his side needed the goal he scored to get past the Clonmel Commercials challenge.

Castlehaven 1-05 Stradbally 0-07

They say Irving Berlin kept a musical genius chained up in his attic — starving, shoeless — and whenever the composer of White Christmas needed another hit, he lowered the Stira, climbed up and told his resident hit machine to crank out another one.

Crossmaglen Rangers will face Down opponents in the AIB Ulster Club SFC final for the second year running, after Cross and Kilcoo won their respective semi-finals today.

Ballinacourty’s hopes of retaining their Waterford SFC title were ended by arch rivals Stradbally (2-12 to 0-12) in Saturday’s exciting semi-final at Fraher Field, Dungarvan.

Laois native Maurice Deegan has been confirmed as the referee for the 2012 GAA All-Ireland Senior Football Championship final between Donegal and Mayo on Sunday, September 23.

Electric Picnic organisers have released the final timetable for the arts and music festival, which takes place this weekend.

WATERFORD County Board chairman Tom Cunningham spelled out the stark realities of the county’s financial situation at last night’s annual convention in Dungarvan.

WATERFORD GAA united to pay their final respects to a football legend and renowned educationalist Sean Ahearne of Brenan, Stradbally, yesterday.

THE Ballinacourty footballers are an experienced bunch who’ve dealt with plenty of heartbreak in recent years.

ALTHOUGH not yet confirmed, there is a local rumour that a farm at Stradbally, Co Waterford is sold.

ON a weekend when all the qualification and relegation issues in the Waterford SHC were determined, pride of place goes to Mount Sion who brought Ballygunner’s hitherto unbeaten group stage run to a shuddering halt at a fiery Walsh Park encounter on Saturday evening.

THE Portlaoise and Arles-Kilcruise rivalry which has built up between the sides as they contested the last two Laois finals will be given its latest outing in two weeks’ time after they were drawn to play each other in the second round.