Ballysaggart selector Pat Bennett launched a scathing attack on referee John Keenan over the “crazy” dismissal of his son Kieran during Saturday’s All-Ireland junior final replay.

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Ballysaggart in Co Waterford is bursting with pride ahead of Sunday’s minor final with the Bennett boys pivotal to Déise hopes.

An ugly row is developing in Limerick after divisional club Emmets started with just 13 players in their championship game against Adare on Sunday.

Limerick club hurling side Emmets could only muster up 13 players for the start of yesterday’s Limerick SHC game against Adare.

GAA Director General Páraic Duffy and refereeing bodies have expressed disappointment in Davy Fitzgerald’s post-match comments on Sunday.

THE potential candidate list for the vacant Waterford hurling job has been cut again as outgoing selector Paraic Fanning won’t be putting his name forward for the position.

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.

DAVY FITZGERALD insists his father and Clare secretary Pat will have nothing to do with him ever being appointed as senior hurling manager.

THERE has been an angry reaction in Waterford after GAA chiefs postponed all six senior football championship ties next weekend.

WATERFORD boss Davy Fitzgerald revealed he had urged yesterday’s Munster championship goalscoring hero John Mullane to improve his record at finding the net before the match.

LIMERICK boss Donal O’Grady has expressed ‘major concern’ at comments made by Waterford selector Pat Bennett relating to refereeing performances ahead of tomorrow’s Munster SHC semi-final between the counties.

WATERFORD selector Pat Bennett has claimed the county’s hurlers and manager Davy Fitzgerald have been unfairly targeted by referees.

WATERFORD senior hurling manager Davy Fitzgerald is unsure about Eoin Murphy’s inter-county future.

EVERYONE in hurling, no matter what county you follow, must congratulate Dublin’s hurlers on reaching their first league final since 1946.

AN opportunist 56th minute goal executed by Ballygunner debutant Brian O’Sullivan ensured Waterford fended off the challenge of Offaly at blustery O’Connor Park, Tullamore yesterday.

WATERFORD manager Davy Fitzgerald will assess potential panellists this Saturday when he stages two challenge games in Carriganore.

WATERFORD hurling selector Pat Bennett has described county secretary Timmy O’Keeffe’s proposal to stage their “home” Munster championship games in Kilkenny’s Nowlan Park as “crazy” and “a purely political move”.

WATERFORD hurling boss Davy Fitzgerald last night pledged that all the players under his watch will enjoy equality of treatment as he prepares for his fourth championship season in charge in 2011 and insists he has no interest in “personal agendas”.

DAVY FITZGERALD’S spell as Waterford senior hurling manager has been extended into a fourth championship season following last night’s specially convened meeting of the County Board.

Davy Fitzgerald has been reappointed as manager of the Waterford senior hurlers, following a special meeting of the Waterford GAA Board in Dungarvan tonight.

AND we thought last Sunday was dramatic!

The replay? I’m really looking forward to that, though I doubt we’ll see the same two starting line-ups the next day.

LAST weekend, and not for the first time this year, you’d have to say the football outshone the hurling, big-time – a bad Leinster final in Croke Park.

YOUNG men facing strain and financial worry after losing their jobs are among those increasingly seeking help from family resource centres.

Family Resource Centres say there has been a significant rise in the number of people using their services because of the recession.

On the way into Semple Stadium yesterday I met three fine Waterford men, Tony Wright, Michael O’Donnell and a man with a great Clare name but who assured me he was all Waterford, Paddy McNamara.

THE changing face of the modern Irish family has been revealed.

WATERFORD hurling star Eoin Kelly has rubbished suggestions he will not be lining out for the county next season, saying he is looking forward to working with manager Davy Fitzgerald and his new selectors.

Tipperary senior hurling manager Liam Sheedy has added four new players to his squad ahead of the 2010 season.

ON A night when the Waterford County Board unanimously ratified the appointment of two new county senior hurling selectors for 2010, team manager Davy Fitzgerald blasted those people – many of them within his own native Clare – who, he claims, have an agenda designed to try and knock him at every given opportunity.

GRUELLING commutes and a lack of free time for families is leading to a growing number of marriages and relationships collapsing.

THERE has been a six-fold increase in the number of couples availing of family mediation since divorce was legalised in Ireland.

EFFORTS have begun to bring conversation rather than confrontation into the heart of the legal system to ease the level of conflict in family disputes.

A ceremony will mark the opening of the 100th family resource centre today.