Ryan's dream getting nearer to reality

NOW into his eighth year as Waterford County Board chairman, Paddy Joe Ryan possesses the same wish as the day he assumed office.

Addressing his first county convention he expressed the hope that “some time during my term of office I will have the honour and privilege of seeing a Waterford senior hurling captain lifting the McCarthy Cup”.

This year, however, as if acting on a sixth sense, Ryan told delegates: “I believe that we could be nearer in 2002 to bringing that dream to reality than we have ever been over the last 40 years.”