Déise fans still believe as team receive rapturous welcome home

The turnout and enthusiasm by Waterford hurling supporters as their team arrived home last night after coming so close to All-Ireland glory left many wondering what it will be like when they do go and win it.

More than 20,000 people lined the quays of Waterford city, according to gardaí, from early evening, to welcome their hurling heroes just over 24 hours after they came within a goal of Galway in Sunday’s tension-packed decider, 58 years after the county last won the Liam McCarthy Cup.

About an hour and a half later than scheduled, the team and management crossed Rice Bridge on an open-top bus, to ever-growing cheers, and travelled along the quays to the