Waterford 4-18 Wexford 3-13 (SH Challenge): Waterford manager Derek McGrath will wait until the last minute to make a decision on Maurice Shanahan’s fitness for Sunday’s Munster semi final against Cork.

Waterford 3-21 Laois 0-12: A patient approach worked best for Waterford as Derek McGrath and Seamus Plunkett turned Fraher Field into a chessboard on Saturday night.

Limerick 2-15 Waterford 1-15

Waterford 1-22 Limerick IT 0-18: On a glum January afternoon at Carriganore, Brian O’Halloran’s vibrant performance gave the two packed stands something to raise the spirits.

Clare 2-20 Waterford 0-17

The Nire 0-11 Stradbally 0-6

Stradbally 1-10 Ballinacourty 1-6

Waterford SHC quarter-final: Dungarvan 4-10 Passage 2-14

The lot of a county intermediate manager can be a trying one.

Waterford 6-23 Offaly 0-14

Tipperary 0-12 Waterford 1-9

Ballinacourty 0-12 Stradbally 0-05

Stradbally 3-18 An Rinn 1-03

Clonoulty-Rossmore 1-11 Kildangan 0-14

Clonmel Commercials 1-09 Thomas MacDonaghs 0-05

BALLINACOURTY dramatically dethroned title holders Stradbally in a tension-filled Waterford SFC final at Fraher Field, Dungarvan, yesterday.

LIMERICK will contest the Munster IHC final on July 6 against either Cork or Clare after beating Waterford in yesterday’s semi-final in Semple Stadium.

Cork 5-17 Waterford 2-8

EIRCOM will be named as the new associate sponsors of the All-Ireland football championship on Monday.

WESTMEATH held on for a vital win over 14-man Waterford in this lively, but poor quality, game at Cusack Park, Mullingar, yesterday.

DRAMA before the throw-in and drama at the death in Waterford IT sports campus on Saturday, as the University of Limerick grabbed a late, late goal from sub Thomas O’Brien to win the Fitzgibbon Cup.

UL 1-17 Limerick IT 2-11

UL’s aspirations of winning the Fitzgibbon Cup title remain intact, but only after they were forced to survive a stern examination from UCD in yesterday’s quarter-final.

TIPPERARY senior Paul Kelly pounced for a crucial 55th minute goal that swung yesterday’s Fitzgibbon Cup Group D tie in Limerick in the direction of his UL team.

CLONOULTY-ROSSMORE claimed the spoils in this Tipperary SHC semi-final in Thurles yesterday despite having played second fiddle for long spells to a Kildangan team that has come a long way in a short time.

JUST what is it about Cork and Waterford when they engage in hurling championship battle?

CORK are chasing their 13th Munster intermediate hurling crown when they take on Waterford in tonight’s decider at Fraher Field, Dungarvan at 7.30pm, a repeat of last year’s final encounter in Páirc Uí Chaoimh when Cork enjoyed a 5-24 to 3-9 triumph.

A POINTED free with the penultimate puck of the game gave Waterford victory over a depleted Cork side in a high scoring and entertaining senior hurling challenge at Ballyduff Upper last evening.

University of Limerick 0-14 Waterford IT 1-15

THE end margin may have flattered UL slightly, as four late unanswered points added gloss to their Fitzgibbon Cup quarter-final win, and conceals a battling display by a UCC team that were light on physique and experience in comparison to their opponents.

UL 3-18 UUJ 3-7

AN exhibition of point scoring by John Gardiner, plus two goals from local hero Michael Cussen, edged Cork to an exciting victory over Waterford in an entertaining challenge game to mark the official opening of the Sarsfields club’s new sand based pitch and flood-lighting system at Riverstown on Saturday night.

UL 3-22 LIT 2-18, LIT Grounds (after extra-time)

Clare 2-17 Waterford 2-12, Fraher Field, Dungarvan

TONIGHT it’s a Munster U21 hurling decider with a twist. The heavyweights of Cork and Tipperary are both marked absent ensuring the first final without either of the Old Firm in fifteen years. It promises to be a unique evening in Dungarvan.

STAND-IN Cork manager Ger Fitzgerald declared himself “very pleased” with the 2009 Cork hurling panel’s display in last night’s challenge match defeat to Waterford in Mallow.

AFTER the disappointment of losing to arch rivals Nire a week earlier, Stradbally reinstated themselves as one of the favourites to lift the Waterford senior football championship title with a decisive 12-point victory over St Brendan’s at Leamybrien last night.

Tralee CBS 5-7 DLS Waterford 1-7

DEFENDING champions Tipperary have left a vacancy at corner forward for tonight’s Munster MHC semi-final against Limerick as they wait for fitness reports on two players who are in line for the position.

Tipperary's defeat by Limerick in the McGrath Cup final last week is reflected in the selection of the team to play Kerry in the Munster Senior Football championship at Clonmel on Sunday next.