On the eve of the 25th anniversary of Albert Reynolds becoming taoiseach, Ryle Dwyer examines a volatile career which saw him scupper coalitions but help build peace.

You may have seen it, you may not have, depending on your familiarity with Facebook, the website set up, according to Hollywood, to get back at a girl who dumped a nerd at Harvard.

Waterford 5-15 Galway 0-14: A coronation they wanted. A coronation they received.

Galway manager Tony Ward has described Saturday’s opponents as  one of the best U21 hurling teams of all time.

With 2-25 to his name, Patrick Curran is Waterford’s leading scorer heading into this weekend’s decider, due in no small part, he says, to the two former Déise forwards on the line.

They’ll enter Thurles on Saturday as unbackable favourites because of what Austin Gleeson did to Kilkenny in last month’s drawn All-Ireland semi-final, because of what he did in the replay six days later, because of Conor Gleeson’s assuredness when thrown in for his second afternoon of championship fare in the All-Ireland quarter-final win over Wexford and because Patrick Curran and Shane Bennett, between them, clipped 3-73 in the national league.

Waterford 5-25 Antrim 1-8: Concrete solutions may have been thin on the ground, but at least there was general agreement Saturday’s futile exercise in Thurles did no-one any favours. 

Waterford 2-19 Tipperary 0-15: A powerful final quarter burst — in which the home outfit outscored Tipperary by 1-8 to 0-1 — delivered Waterford a first Munster U21 hurling title in 22 years.

St Pat’s Maghera 2-14 Summerhill, Sligo 3-10: St. Pat’s Maghera are through to the Hogan Cup final after staging a late comeback to edge past a devastated Summerhill College Sligo team at Brewster Park in Enniskillen yesterday afternoon.

Cork footballers must win back the faith of people in the county after a poor 2015 season, according to Eoin Cadogan.

Former Waterford senior manager John “Jackson” Kiely has deep reservations about the recent football forum having any positive impact on the game in the county.

St Francis College Rochestown 3-9 Nenagh CBS 2-8: Tour-de-force performances from Ciarán Cormack and Shane Kingston returned St Francis College, Rochestown to the semi-final juncture of the Harty Cup for a second successive year.

Mount Sion’s Austin Gleeson has been a rising star of the Waterford club scene and is the now the talk of inter-county hurling.

Six weeks after undergoing open heart surgery, Ken McGrath hopes to be in Thurles to watch his beloved Déise.

Limerick hurler Richie McCarthy, Kerry footballer James O’Donoghue and Clare boss Davy Fitzgerald have scooped the top accolades at this year’s Munster GAA awards.

Clare GAA officials are confident they will have county football and hurling champions crowned in time for the start of the AIB provincial championships.

We take a look at the vacant seats in counties countrywide.

The victorious Waterford minor hurlers will arrive home in Waterford city at 6pm tonight, travelling into Plunkett Station before embarking on an open-top bus journey to City Hall.

The GAA, and sport in general, have always been about much more than the bits between the white lines.

Galway 0-16 Waterford 1-21

Five-time All-Star forward John Mullane says the future is bright for Waterford hurling following the county's historic All-Ireland Minor Hurling Championship final victory at Croke Park today.

For Waterford, this is an eighth game, with two having been lost already. In contrast, it is Galway’s third outing, the straightforward victory over Laois in the quarter-final followed by the drama of the semi-final, which was overshadowed by the malfunctioning of Hawkeye.

Waterford minor hurling manager Seán Power has kept faith with the 15 that conquered Kilkenny for Sunday’s All-Ireland final.

Waterford 2-12 Kilkenny 0-16

Michael Ryan's tenure as Waterford senior hurling manager is over after two years in charge, it has been confirmed tonight.

Waterford are through to the All-Ireland minor hurling final for the first time since 1992 after a gutsy display at Croke Park.

While the drawn Munster minor final nine days ago took place in the Gaelic Grounds, Waterford manager Seán Power never expected his side to have home advantage for tonight’s replay with Limerick (Semple Stadium, 7.30pm).

I agree with the comments of Sean Power (Letters, Sept 18).

I refer to Michael Clifford’s article ‘If the elderly can pay they should pay’ (Irish Examiner, Sept 15).

GREATEST misnomer of the election was of any outright winner.

Fianna Fáil's Sean Power has lost his seat in Kildare South.

Fine Gael councillor Martin Heydon looks set to top the poll in Kildare South and win back the seat lost by Alan Dukes in 2002.

MICHEÁL MARTIN remains the front-runner to be the next Fianna Fáil leader, with the number of TDs publicly declaring they will support him in tomorrow’s vote now in excess of 20.

MICHEÁL MARTIN was first out of the blocks after the Fianna Fáil leadership became vacant — announcing his candidacy for the position and then watching as a steady stream of TDs declared support for him.

FINANCE Minister Brian Lenihan made his leadership ambitions known and encouraged dissent among Fianna Fáil backbenchers over the course of last year, it has been claimed.

LAST night’s Fianna Fáil meeting ended with a call of unity from Micheál Martin who told his supporters to unite behind Taoiseach Brian Cowen, following his side’s victory by a significant margin in a vote of confidence in his leadership.

Finance Minister Brian Lenihan has not got the bottle for a leadership coup, a disgruntled backbencher claimed today.