Waterford hurling supporters can anticipate a side encouraged to play “off the cuff from time to time”, according to new manager Liam Cahill.

Of all the rows ‘The Sunday Game’ programmes generated during the last 40 years, perhaps changing the theme tune 15 years ago was the greatest of them. Here our GAA correspondent John Fogarty lists 10 of the controversies prompted by comments and quotes.

There is method behind Liam Cahill’s madness in dropping Noel Connors and Maurice Shanahan, according to former Waterford star Jim Greene.

Founder and chief executive of Nemeton TV Irial Mac Murchú, county secretary Pat Flynn, and vice-chairman Sean Michael O’Regan will also sit on the panel.

GALWAY qualified for the Liberty Insurance All-Ireland Senior Camogie Semi-Final, having survived the severest of stress tests from a vibrant Waterford at Semple Stadium.

Waterford are looking for a new hurling boss after they announced that Páraic Fanning is stepping down.

Cork U20 football manager Keith Ricken has been “blown away” by the attitude and positivity of his charges.

Tom Barron was the hero of the hour as Waterford ended a 13-year wait for a Munster championship win at Fraher Field last night.

One cannot but be struck by hurling’s ability to evoke a reversal of fortunes, not to mention opinions.

Inter-county football has been a welcome distraction for Waterford’s 46-year-old goalkeeper Darren Mulhearne who took redundancy from his job at Virgin Media a week before being called into the Déise set-up.

Such was the good form of Donal Moloney at the finish that the Clare joint-manager even had time for a parting joke.

So that’s nearly Tuesday wrapped up. Here’s some of the stories we published on irishexaminer.com today which we hope will help you make sense of it all this evening.

This past year I’ve gone back to college to study sports science and yesterday morning I had to hand in an assignment.

Here’s one thing you knew about Páraic Fanning. He’s Mount Sion and Déise hurling royalty.

The camera work may have been shaky but what it captured was a thing of beauty.

A cold and calculated performance from Waterford on a perishing afternoon in Thurles.

ALL-IRELAND champions Cork survived an extremely stern examination from Tipperary at The Ragg.

Páraic Fanning could be named as the new Waterford senior hurling manager later this week, although influential figures have not yet given up of Mattie Kenny taking the reins.

He led Waterford to their first championship victory in seven years.

In his seminal book Moneyball, Michael Lewis observed that the play-offs could frustrate the hell out of some of the most progressive front offices in baseball because it offered such a small sample size.

Tom Kenny is confident of a Cork victory on Sunday. Concentrating Rebel minds will be the Munster final berth up for grabs, but equally pertinent, says the former midfielder, is atoning for last year’s All-Ireland semi-final thumping.

The Waterford footballers’ joy at outlasting their hurling counterparts in the Championship has been tempered somewhat by an unkind Round 2 qualifier draw.

Hours after Sunday’s latest Munster SHC draw, Michael ‘Brick’ Walsh thumbed a message on the Waterford WhatsApp players group. Nodding to his fumble that led to Patrick Maher’s first goal, he claimed responsibility for the draw but vowed to make amends against Limerick this Sunday and encouraged his team-mates to look ahead to the game.

Waterford 2-13 Tipperary 3-9: Waterford produced a sensational comeback to beat Tipperary in the Munster Minor Hurling Championship at the Gaelic Grounds.

Shortly after my wife and I took up a pair of seats about four rows from the back of the covered stand in Cusack Park last Sunday, I could hear a young fella behind me asking his father: Is that Tony Browne?

Here are the main talking points in the GAA world over the weekend.

Managers always want to see their best-laid plans reflected on the field, but yesterday at Páirc Uí Rinn performance could take a back seat. In a relegation battle, it is only the result that matters, says Donal O’Grady.

Austin Gleeson feels the Waterford players might have been “trying too hard” to make things work after their run of three consecutive defeats.

“It’s strange now to see Waterford favourites playing Kilkenny whether it’s in Walsh Park, Nowlan Park, or Nagasaki.”

Waterford midfielder Colin Dunford says the doubters drove the Déise on last year and he has promised they will dig deep to go one step further in 2018.

Waterford midfielder Colin Dunford says the doubters drove the Déise on last year and he has promised they will dig deep to go one step further in 2018.

The interview with Éamonn Fitzmaurice wasn’t 40 seconds old when the Kerry manager first made reference to a “three-year plan”.

For a man who is arguably the most open and honest communicator on the inter-county managerial scene, you don’t expect an admission from Derek McGrath of being “hypersensitive” to everything said about him.

A survivor of Waterford’s last All-Ireland win in 1959, Austin Flynn manned the Déise square at a time when his chief responsibility was to ‘protect the goalkeeper from being killed’. His policing was thorough, even when assigned the cases of greats such as Nickey Rackard, Liam Devaney, and Christy Ring, who became a great friend as much as foe.

Waterford manager Derek McGrath has confirmed that attacker Shane Bennett is taking a break from inter-county hurling, though he hopes the Ballysaggart man may return to the panel next spring, writes Michael Moynihan.

Waterford went a point up ten minutes into the second half. It had been tit for tat in the second period, but from that point on Galway had the scoring power to creep ahead and the experience to see out the game.

Donal O’Grady gives his tactical breakdown of an intriguing All-Ireland final.

The sweeper system works

Waterford supporters trawling for the upper hand in next weekend’s All-Ireland hurling semi-final have resorted to very fishy tactics in Youghal with an audacious attack on a replica of Moby Dick.

Galway hurling captain David Burke doesn’t believe any team employing a sweeper will lift Liam MacCarthy and has claimed Waterford could benefit from not having Tadhg De Búrca available for next month’s All-Ireland semi-final against Cork.