The Waterford County Board have taken the extraordinary decision to cancel all of the senior hurlers’ training until after the May Bank Holiday weekend.

Waterford hurlers will undertake a self-funded warm weather training camp to Portugal in early April.

Passage manager Peter Queally was last night interviewed for the vacant Waterford senior hurling job — but Derek McGrath remains a live contender for the position.

Peter Queally has emerged as favourite to become Waterford’s new senior hurling team manager. And Queally’s claims could be enhanced if Passage claim victory in next Sunday’s county final against eastern rivals Ballygunner.

Kilkenny legend DJ Carey has allowed his name to go forward for the vacant Waterford job.

Former Waterford hurlers Stephen Frampton and James Murray have agreed to join the six man selection committee to recruit a new senior hurling manager.

The Waterford County Board have put in place a six-man selection committee, including two former inter-county players, to search for a new senior hurling manager after last night’s monthly meeting at Lawlor’s Hotel in Dungarvan.

Waterford County Board officials have moved to quash rumours that their spending on inter-county teams is out of control.

In the first of a four-part series on key issues in the GAA, threats to the club is foremost.

WHEN it happened, the immediate reaction was that there must have been a fallout.

Waterford County Board recorded a loss of €212,271 in their 2012 accounts which will be presented to tomorrow night’s annual convention in Dungarvan.

Waterford chairman Tom Cunningham admits it’s likely the board will incur a loss from their two-day Rhythmfest fundraiser in Fraher Field this past weekend.

WATERFORD GAA chiefs will proceed with plans to appoint a Director of Football but the position will be a voluntary one as the cash-strapped board are unable to finance a full-time position.

WATERFORD County Board chairman Tom Cunningham spelled out the stark realities of the county’s financial situation at last night’s annual convention in Dungarvan.

WATERFORD are planning to make cuts across the board to make up for the €120,000 shortfall in their 2011 accounts.

MICHAEL RYAN was on the Nire road last week when his phone rang.

WATERFORD GAA chiefs have revealed they may not have “funds available to feed the players” after training sessions such is the impact of the financial downturn on the board’s finances.

DAVY FITZGERALD is the only candidate in the race to be appointed Clare senior hurling boss ahead of tonight’s county board meeting at the West County Hotel in Ennis.

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.

THE Waterford senior hurlers will received specialist training from international athletics star Kelly Proper.

WATERFORD GAA secretary Timmy O’Keeffe has made a resolute defence of his highly controversial suggestion that the Déise should opt for Kilkenny’s Nowlan Park as the county’s Munster senior hurling championship venue in any future “home and away’’ arrangement they might enter into.

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”.

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’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.

FORMER All-Ireland winning Kilkenny captain, Eddie O’Connor, is one of four nominations to become Waterford senior hurling manager.

MICK O’DWYER is to be ratified tonight as the Wicklow senior boss for a fifth successive season – his 57th consecutive season in inter-county football.

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.

WATERFORD hurling manager Davy Fitzgerald will be living on his nerves this weekend, hoping that none of his players will pick up injuries in advance of the July 11 Munster final showdown with Cork at Semple Stadium.

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.

WATERFORD GAA chiefs have refused requests from hurling manager Davy Fitzgerald to postpone a round of senior football championship games fixed for the last weekend in June.

A lucrative new sponsorship deal between the mobile phone company 3 Ireland and the Waterford County GAA Board was officially signed off yesterday and will embrace all of the Déise teams in both hurling and football over the next two seasons.

THREE Irish college students who developed revolutionary medical devices swept the boards at an international competition yesterday.