It has become one of the iconic camogie photographs, up there with Angela Downey racing through to score a goal for victors Kilkenny in the 1989 All-Ireland final, despite having her skirt pulled off by Cork’s Liz O’Neill, or Lismore’s Gráinne Kenneally diving full-length football-style, sans hurley, in a bid to block a clearance by Ballyhale defender Jacqui Frisby in the drawn All-Ireland intermediate club final 25 years later.

The dream of the nineties is alive in Waterford, it seems.

Lismore (Waterford) 2-14 Kilmoyley (Kerry) 0-13: Lismore are the new Munster Club IHC champions after an impressive victory over Kerry side Kilmoyley at Mallow’s GAA Complex on Saturday.

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Brian Cody has made four changes to the Kilkenny side for today’s Allianz Hurling League Division 1A clash with Tipperary in Nowlan Park (throw-in 2pm).

Waterford county board chairman Paddy Joe Ryan assured delegates at last night’s convention at Lawlors Hotel, Dungarvan, that the end of the club levy is in sight and that spending on county teams will be carefully monitored.

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.

The new Bishop of Waterford and Lismore wants to reach out to Catholics who have “turned away” from the faith.

Camogie: Milford’s long unbeaten run in the All-Ireland senior camogie championship was ended by Mullagh in yesterday’s semi-final at MacDonagh Park in Nenagh (2-5 to 0-9).

UCC 3-19 GMIT 0-8: The sight of Conor Lehane, Alan Cadogan and Shane O’Donnell being clapped off the field midway through the second-half painted a most accurate picture of this stroll in the park for UCC.

Fourteen-man Ballygunner encountered some turbulence against old rivals Lismore at Walsh Park yesterday, but a polished second-half showing of 2-14 secured their place in the last four of the Waterford SHC.

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

Electric Ireland Musnter MHC final replay

Electric Ireland Munster MHC final replay

Munster U21 HC semi-final

Violinist Aoife will lead her sisters Jenny and Lisa, and father William, in the orchestra at Lismore Music Festival, says Nicki ffrench Davis.

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).

St Patrick’s weekend, 2014 will live long in the memory of Caithriona McGlone as the Lismore forward netted three times from play in the AIB All-Ireland intermediate club camogie final replay win over Ballyhale Shamrocks (3-8 to 0-7) at the Clonmel Sportsfield yesterday.

Lismore 0-9 Ballyhale Shamrocks 1-6

Midleton CBS 2-17 Blackwater CS 0-15

Sarsfields 1-21 UCC 5-09

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.

Bryan Sheehan, Anthony Maher and Aidan O’Mahony make their first starts of the year for Kerry in tomorrow’s McGrath Cup semi-final against Limerick at Fitzgerald Stadium.

De La Salle 0-24 Lismore 4-11

Kilkenny showed the greater hunger to land the 31st Tony Forristal U14 hurling title when they defeated host county Waterford 1-12 to 1-5 in yesterday’s final at sun drenched Walsh Park.

On a weekend that provided more than its fair share of drama, only three of the quarter-finalists have been confirmed after the penultimate round of games in the group stage of the title race.

Waterford hurling boss Michael Ryan will be boosted by star forward Eoin Kelly’s clean bill of health after last weekend.

The tie of the Waterford championship weekend lived up to expectations with Dungarvan and Abbeyside finishing level after a thrilling spectacle at Fraher Field on Saturday evening.

Wexford’s All-Ireland winning captain and goal-scoring heroine, Ursula Jacob scored a remarkable 1-16 as Oulart-The-Ballagh proved much too strong for Loughgiel in the All-Ireland senior club camogie semi-final.

TRY, try and try again goes the legend of Robert the Bruce, the persistence of a spider in his hideout cave at Rathlin Island persuading the Scottish lord to go back and have one last lash at gaining the throne, which of course he succeeded in doing.

ON a weekend when all the qualification and relegation issues in the Waterford SHC were determined, pride of place goes to Mount Sion who brought Ballygunner’s hitherto unbeaten group stage run to a shuddering halt at a fiery Walsh Park encounter on Saturday evening.

A nine-year-old boy from Waterford has become the youngest ever Irish transplant athlete to win a gold medal at the World Transplant Games in Sweden.

TIPPERARY U21 boss Ken Hogan feels greater consideration should be given to the scheduling of the Munster hurling championships, as his charges prepare to face Waterford in tonight’s provincial quarter-final — just three days after the county senior side defeated Cork.

LISMORE made a stunning comeback to force a draw with titleholders Ballygunner in a highly charged Waterford SHC semi-final at Dungarvan’s Fraher Field yesterday.

FEW are as well acquainted with the disappointment of losing Waterford SHC games to Ballygunner as former Lismore great Michael ‘Ducky’ Ormonde.

A VIRTUOSO display by the outstanding Maurice Shanahan propelled Lismore to an impressive win over neighbours Ballyduff Upper in an exciting Waterford SHC quarter-final at Fraher Field, Dungarvan yesterday.

BROKEN hurleys and soaked jerseys. Grazed knuckles and the salt tang of sweat. Defeated dressing-rooms share a lot of elements.

MIND your heads while I throw in the first cliché, if I may; in sport, there’s no gain without pain.