Waterford hurlers will undertake a self-funded warm weather training camp to Portugal in early April.

Waterford are seeking to host their first Munster senior hurling championship game in 11 years against Cork next May.

Passage manager Peter Queally was last night interviewed for the vacant Waterford senior hurling job — but Derek McGrath remains a live contender for the position.

Peter Queally has emerged as favourite to become Waterford’s new senior hurling team manager. And Queally’s claims could be enhanced if Passage claim victory in next Sunday’s county final against eastern rivals Ballygunner.

Kilkenny legend DJ Carey has admitted today that he was unaware of his reported nomination for the position of Waterford senior hurling manager.

Kilkenny legend DJ Carey has allowed his name to go forward for the vacant Waterford job.

The Waterford County Board have put in place a six-man selection committee, including two former inter-county players, to search for a new senior hurling manager after last night’s monthly meeting at Lawlor’s Hotel in Dungarvan.

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.

DAVY FITZGERALD is the only candidate in the race to be appointed Clare senior hurling boss ahead of tonight’s county board meeting at the West County Hotel in Ennis.

AS the Davy Fitzgerald managerial era in Waterford officially drew to a close last night, delegates at a meeting of the county board decided the job of finding his successor as county senior hurling boss will commence as early as tomorrow.

A second Irish village has discovered a parish register with records of the ancestors of Barack Obama.

A CAMPAIGN has been launched to have Shinrone in Co Offaly included in Barack Obama’s visit to Ireland in recognition of the US president’s ancestral ties to the village.

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.

HISTORY was made in Waterford’s All-Ireland qualifier defeat to Offaly in Tullamore on Saturday as the Déise finished the game with an attack that included sons of both the county chairman and secretary.

JOHN KIELY last night expressed surprise and disappointment at not being re-appointed as Waterford senior football manager.

THE GAA last night confirmed that, in accordance with rule, the All-Ireland SH relegation playoffs will take place on the weekend of Saturday July 25.

ARDMORE GAA officials have blasted the Waterford County Board’s decision to fix their Waterford SHC relegation playoff against Mount Sion for Bank Holiday Monday.

GAA chiefs in Waterford have vowed to recover the €140,000-plus in ticket revenues at the centre of embezzlement allegations, which have prompted the resignation of one long-serving official.

A TOP GAA official is warning that the growth in alcohol consumption and substance abuse amongst young people could have serious consequences for clubs and even for the games themselves.