Super sub JJ Hutchinson was the game-changer for Ballygunner in the final quarter as the champions blitzed Dungarvan with the last nine points of yesterday’s Round 2 contest at a wet, wet, wet Walsh Park (1-18 to 0-14).

Michael Walsh’s appearance in the All-Ireland semi-final of 2017 was, including replays, his 12th on that stage.

We are a week into Munster Championship Lent. The 40 days and 40 nights before the start of the Munster SHC on May 12 commenced last Tuesday.

“We made a lot of genuine and honest mistakes and I can live with those.”

Former Waterford manager Derek McGrath has called on more sophisticated score detection technology to be installed at all county venues to ensure fairness.

Derek McGrath will take time to reflect before making a call on whether or not he’ll remain on as Waterford manager.

Waterford 2-22 Tipperary 2-22: The width of a post has often been the difference between victory and defeat. Not here.

Cork 0-21 - Waterford 1-13: So, Cork remain in Division 1A and Waterford are relegated to the second tier. A springtime of false dawns and second comings came to some sort of crescendo in the snow flurries and foot-stampings and hand-rubbings in Páirc Uí Rinn yesterday, where the home side’s tús maith was bookended by a críoch maith.

This NHL 1A clash went to the visitors Wexford in front of a crowd of 7,567.

From a distance, the world looks maroon and white this morning.

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

This intro was written during the week rather than yesterday afternoon, and not for the sake of having one already baked in the event that yer man in North Korea decided to rain fire and fury down on top of the one world leader who has taken to making him look vaguely sane.

Waterford were just the better team. So were Tipperary on Saturday but there was still a sense that Clare left it after them. You cannot argue against 21 points from play to seven, but some of the missed chances for Clare were soul destroying, writes Anthony Daly.

Wexford were outwitted and outworked by a Waterford team who will feel there is still plenty in them after this handsome win, writes John Fogarty.

Kevin Feely doesn’t know what better way to put why he waved goodbye on a career across the Irish Sea.

Some of Waterford’s players were still in the shower as Brian Cody waited to enter the dressing room and pass on Kilkenny’s congratulations.

A Maurice Shanahan goal in the second half of additional time set Waterford on their way to a historic and captivating championship victory over Kilkenny in Thurles.

Noel McGrath has been relegated to the Tipperary bench for tomorrow’s All-Ireland SHC second round qualifier against Dublin.

Former Waterford hurler Brian Flannery says it would be a “disaster” if the most talented Déise team of the past 20 years had their summer ended as early as the second weekend of July.

Hurling pauses, if only to catch its breath. 

Eddie Brennan believes players not being allowed ‘function off instinct’ is a key reason behind the drop in goals across Division 1A.

Kilkenny 2-19 Waterford 2-17

Kilkenny had to rely on a Walter Walsh goal to help them avoid a first championship defeat to Waterford since the 1959 All-Ireland final.

Clare 1-23 Waterford 2-19: Domhnall O’Donovan may no longer be part of the panel but it’s fair to state Clare have lost none of their never-say-die virtues.

That rolling bet between myself and John Mullane is still rolling. I didn’t take the €20 off him yesterday because we are going doubles or quits for the championship match on June 5th.

Jake Dillon is patient when you mention “the system”.

Waterford selector Dan Shanahan has warned that Tipperary will be “very keen” to make up for their late defeat to Kilkenny in the last round of NHL games.

Pauric Mahony hasn’t circled a date in the calendar, but the 23-year-old intends to have a good body of work under his belt come next summer so that he can play a full part in Waterford’s 2016 championship campaign.

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.

Twenty months ago, Dan Shanahan agreed Waterford were the fifth team in Munster. “Maybe ninth or 10th in Ireland,” he says now of that period. How times have changed, writes John Fogarty.

Like all good teams, whatever the sport, Kilkenny set up to be very difficult to beat. 

Waterford 2-21 Dublin 1-19: An unstinting work-rate complimented by the occasional passage of sweeping brilliance.

Waterford weren’t as sharp against Tipp as they were earlier in the spring. They’re training since last autumn. Fatigue can surreptitiously seep into a losing dressing room.

Munster SHC final

Three-time champions De La Salle fended off a second-half revival from Ballygunner to collect their first win of the season in the Waterford SHC Round 3 at Walsh Park last night.

Tactical innovation in hurling is heading towards a new level.

They couldn’t, could they? Go all the way?