Damien Delaney has started pre-season as a Waterford player determined to learn the lessons from a challenging six months at Cork City which saw the 37-year-old “hit a brick wall”, as he puts it, before eventually parting company with his hometown club in early December.

Cork City boss John Caulfield left nobody in doubt of the threat posed in the Munster derby tonight after declaring that Waterford have “basically bought a Premier Division title-challenging team”.

TEAGASC open days on profitable commercial tillage farms could give attendees ideas on how to improve performance and negotiate their way through their current economic challenges.

IT’S a seasoned smile Dan Connor wears as he talks about his career. They say football can be a cruel game but the Waterford United keeper has experienced that cruel side more than most.