If you were following hurling a decade or so you probably identified Ardmore with a couple of the main pillars of that glamorous Waterford team of the noughties.

Ardmore (Waterford) 3-11 Ballybacon-Grange (Tipperary) 2-8: This Munster Club JHC title went to Ardmore, who finished the game with 12 players, played the entire second half without two men — and yet never looked in serious danger of losing.

Ardmore of Waterford’s greater class made the difference in this Munster club JHC final in Waterford.

Cork 1-24, Waterford 0-8: Cork eased into the semi-finals of the Munster MHC with this 19-point rout of Waterford The Déise, who entered the contest off the back of a heavy defeat to Clare, were aided by a slight breeze in the opening period and yet found themselves seven in arrears at the break, 0-11 to 0-4. 

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Tipp and Wexford are the only teams whose form-lines have been ultra-consistent so far but February can do that to you, says Anthony Daly.

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Seán Barron and Michael O’Halloran are the two Waterford debutants for Sunday’s Munster SFC quarter-final against Tipperary in Semple Stadium (3.30pm).

Clare enjoyed a facile victory over a very poor Waterford side in the quarter-final of the Munster U-21 football championship at Miltown Malbay last evening.

Cork midfielder Ian Maguire has overcome a back injury and is selected for tomorrow’s Munster U21 football quarter-final against Limerick.

THIS was the company he kept.

Seamus Prendergast has called time on his inter-county career with Waterford.

The Nire were forced to dig deep before holding out for an unspectacular 1-8 to 0-8 win over a plucky Rathgormack outfit at Fraher Field on Saturday night to earn a place in the last four of the Waterford SFC.

Maurice Shanahan measured a last-minute free to supply Lismore with the draw they required on Saturday night to reach the quarter-finals and nudged Fourmilewater towards the relegation play-off.

Waterford SHC, Round 4

Kilkenny’s Michael Fennelly returns at centre-forward for tomorrow’s All-Ireland semi-final clash against Limerick.

Ballygunner became the first team to qualify for the Waterford SHC quarter-finals following a low-key top of the table tussle with Mount Sion at Walsh Park last night (0-20 to 1-9).

All-Ireland MHC: Waterford 2-18 Dublin 0-19

Electric Ireland Musnter MHC final replay

Electric Ireland Munster MHC final replay

He’s glad now he came back. After almost a decade and a half in Waterford’s white and blue Seamus Prendergast decided to give 2014 a go, and with a minute left against Cork two weeks ago it was like 2004 all over again. Just as he did in that immortal Munster final, the big Ardmore man had nudged Waterford ahead.

The lot of a county intermediate manager can be a trying one.

Roanmore rocked Fourmilewater with a show of hunger and hard work at an overcast Fraher Field to claim a surprise two-point win (1-9 to 0-10).

Boosted by the shooting of the third series of Chris O’Dowd’s Moone Boy, Ardmore Studios has enjoyed a turnaround in its fortunes this year after two years of successive losses.

Youghal (Cork) 4-13 Ardmore (Waterford) 1-12

MUNSTER CLUB IHC QUARTER-FINAL:

ARDMORE Studios, which opened its doors as Ireland’s first film studio in May 1958, remains the physical heart of the Irish film industry. Having played host to more than 100 films, the original studios, situated on a 10-acre site, represented an investment of over £500m at the time.

Ballinacourty and Stradbally advanced to the Waterford SFC quarter-finals after the completion of the third round over the weekend.

Kilkenny have received a boost with the news that former Hurler of the Year Michael Fennelly could be available for Sunday’s Leinster SHC semi-final with Dublin in O’Moore Park in Portlaoise.

Our Lady’s Templemore (Tipperary) 1-11 Dungarvan Colleges (Waterford) 2-21

Work commitments mean Stephen Molumphy won’t be available to Waterford’s hurlers this year.

Seamus Prendergast has provided Waterford hurlers with a badly needed boost by revealing that he’s not ruling out the possibility of soldiering on at the top level for yet another year.

Clare 0-13 Waterford 0-7

The Nire booked their place in the last eight of the Waterford senior football championship with a 1-13 to 1-5 victory over 2011 champions Ballinacourty in Saturday’s group stage clash at Fraher Field.

DEFENDING champions Stradbally snatched victory from the jaws of defeat against Rathgormack in an exciting Waterford SFC group game at Fraher Field, Dungarvan on Saturday.

WATERFORD GAA secretary Timmy O’Keeffe has made a resolute defence of his highly controversial suggestion that the Déise should opt for Kilkenny’s Nowlan Park as the county’s Munster senior hurling championship venue in any future “home and away’’ arrangement they might enter into.

Waterford manager Davy Fitzgerald has made no personnel changes for Sunday's All-Ireland SHC semi-final against Tipperary at Croke Park (throw-in 3.30pm).

Waterford GAA chiefs have refused requests from hurling manager Davy Fitzgerald to postpone a round of senior football championship games fixed for the last weekend in June.

WATERFORD GAA chiefs have refused requests from hurling manager Davy Fitzgerald to postpone a round of senior football championship games fixed for the last weekend in June.

GAA chiefs yesterday clarified an issue relating to the mandatory wearing of helmets at senior inter-county level which arose in Sunday’s Kehoe Cup match between Roscommon and Wicklow, by insisting helmets have to be worn at all times during games.