WATERFORD bounced back from their opening day defeat to Wexford to claim a historic first Division Three victory at Fraher Field, Dungarvan.

Clare 1-10 Waterford 0-10

WATERFORD will reflect ruefully on a Munster junior football championship semi-final they all but gifted to Limerick at Fraher Field, Dungarvan, yesterday.

BEATEN county finalists for the last two years, the Nire, cruised to the Waterford SFC quarter-final with a facile win at Leamybrien on Saturday.

Cork 3-15 Waterford 0-7

NINETEEN years after making his inter-county debut, Mickey Linden is back in the Down senior squad for this year’s Ulster championship.