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Peter Smith was on the last Midleton team to win the county SHC title in 1991, as part of a side which featured household names like Ger Fitzgerald, Kevin Hennessy, John Fenton, Pat Hartnett and Denis Mulcahy.

An untiring commitment to voluntary community work for more than a quarter of a century was recognised with the awarding of the Paddy Fitzgerald Memorial Award to a County Limerick woman.

The voluntary efforts of people in rural communities are to be celebrated at the 2012 Paddy Fitzgerald Memorial Awards in Dunraven Arms Hotel, Adare, Co Limerick, on Oct 14, with a €2,000 top prize.

A group of property investors and owners is preparing to take legal action against the Financial Regulator for allowing reckless lending by the banks.

THE strained relationship between Waterford County Board and the Munster Council continues to worsen, after Déise delegates slammed the tickets they received for last Sunday’s provincial hurling final.

FOLLOWING the Munster hurling final venue debacle which led to apologies to the Munster Council and the Cork and Tipperary county boards, the Waterford County Board executive is again on the back foot after they scrapped a controversial levy on ticket prices.

WHILE the seriousness of Waterford’s financial position was again starkly spelled out at last night’s meeting of the County GAA Board, there was only a fleeting reference to the controversial €50,000 “deal’’ agreed between the Waterford executive and their Cork and Tipperary counterparts in relation to the Munster senior hurling final venue.

GALWAY footballers received a huge boost with news the knee injury Michael Meehan sustained against Kerry on Sunday is not as serious as first feared.

REGARDING Lisbon, I think it is far more important to have a referendum on the benchmarking of average public sector pay to average private sector pay and the numbers of public workers as a percentage of private workers while guaranteeing that any perk or penalty applying to one sector also applies to the other.

PADDY FITZGERALD’S lifetime of rural voluntary endeavour will be recalled Thursday night when the award which commemorates him will be presented at Adare, Co Limerick.

THE skirl of the bagpipes echoed around the Co Cork village of Cullen yesterday as local people celebrated a notable success by a well-known pipe band on its 65th anniversary.

WATERFORD County Board secretary Seamus Grant is warning that the number of team training sessions may have to be limited due to spiralling costs.

THE longest-serving county board secretary in the country is expressing major reservations about the format for the 2005 All-Ireland SHC.