Hailing from Mount Sion, the gung-ho is part of what he is, but Austin Gleeson maintains he is learning to be more of a team player.

Jackie Tyrrell makes his first since last year’s Leinster final as one of five changes to the Kilkenny side for tomorrow’s Allianz HL Division 1A clash with Galway at Nowlan Park tomorrow (2pm).

Munster SHC fi nal

Next month’s Munster hurling final is expected to be staged in Semple Stadium as Waterford County Board officials last night met with their Tipperary colleagues to iron out an agreement.

Waterford 4-30 Antrim 0-10

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

WATERFORD SHC FINAL:

The GAA are to honour the 15 outstanding hurlers from the 1980s who were unsuccessful in annexing an All-Ireland winner’s medal.

Work commitments mean Stephen Molumphy won’t be available to Waterford’s hurlers this year.

You go up the stairs to the bar in the Mount Sion clubhouse, turn at the landing, and you face a large photograph by the doors at the top.

There was a time within living memory when the Railway Cup was a big deal.

FRANKIE WALSH was a high-scoring half forward on a magnificent Waterford hurling team but though his honours are great, they are not the whole man.

The first title John Mullane ever won with De La Salle was a Waterford senior hurling championship medal, in 2008.

On a flying visit home from his duties in Britain, County Armagh-born Brian Hughes provided trainer James Lambe with a 149/1 double in Downpatrick yesterday, thanks to perfectly-judged rides on Daytime Dreamer and Kingsmoss.

OLLIE BAKER is set to follow his former Clare All-Ireland-winning teammates Davy Fitzgerald and Anthony Daly into inter-county senior management, after being recommended by an Offaly County Board appointments committee to succeed Joe Dooley as the county’s new manager.

Davy Fitzgerald has named his Waterford side for Sunday's Munster Senior Hurling final against Tipperary in Pairc Ui Caoimh.

WATERFORD will host the first health and well being day for transgender people in Ireland next Thursday.

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”.

WATERFORD GAA chiefs are hopeful of breaking even by year’s end despite the downturn in the economy.

IT IS all quiet on the adult inter-county hurling scene this weekend as the nation prepares for the mother of all battles when Kilkenny and Tipperary face off in Sunday week’s All-Ireland SHC final.

AND SO to Waterford on a sunny weekend. We spent most of Saturday afternoon at a GAA club function in the Crystal City, which was conducted half al fresco and half al taverna, if you’ll forgive the pidgin Italian. The al fresco part was the most enjoyable, given the variety of delights on offer.

WATERFORD hurling hero Ken McGrath has admitted that long-term knee problems may force him to retire from the game.

Gardaí have issued a renewed appeal for information about the death of Waterford pensioner Paddy Barry.

PADDY BARRY, the 82-year-old grandfather of magician Keith Barry, died almost a week after he was found unconscious following a break-in at his Waterford home.

Tipperary’s Babs Keating and Kilkenny’s Pat Henderson met in Clonmel, Co Tipperary during the week. Diarmuid O’Flynn spoke to them.

THE tradition of intercounty underage hurling featuring heavily on the GAA agenda for the last weekend in August is maintained over the next two days.

LIMERICK boss Ger Hegarty has made two changes for tonight’s crucial Munster MHC play-off with Waterford at the Gaelic Grounds, 6.30pm.

CHANGING TIMES

WESTMEATH manager Johnny Dooley has already vented his wrath at the GAA authorities over the fixing of the Christy Ring final for this evening in Croke Park at 7.30pm, a slot which he felt showed utter contempt for the hurlers of Westmeath and Carlow.

THE dream to turn one of Waterford city’s most historic sites into a place of pilgrimage with a visitor centre of international standard becomes reality this Friday.

A CENTRE dedicated to Edmund Rice, founder of the Christian and Presentation Brothers, is to be opened shortly by Taoiseach Bertie Ahern.

A FORMER GAA president who spoke at the British houses of parliament at the height of the Troubles has become just the eighth person to be conferred with an honorary fellowship by Waterford Institute of Technology (WIT).

THE school where Education Minister Mary Hanafin worked as a teacher is one of more than 50 which have been added to her department’s building programme.

The Vodafone GAA AllStars awards for the month of February have been presented today to Donegal footballer Barry Dunnion and Waterford hurler Eoin Kelly.

NOT since Jesus himself multiplied five loaves for 5,000 famished followers have such a multitude of uses been found for two humble slices of bread.

LOCAL groups in Waterford whose work focuses on the disadvantaged, young people and the elderly are being urged to apply for their share of a €24 million fund which is being made available by the Government from the dormant accounts fund.