Decies deliver and a prayer for the Faithful

Waterford 1-26 Offaly 1-15

Mission partly accomplished by Offaly also.

Waterford came in search of the win that would guarantee their place in the draw for the All-Ireland quarter-finals (they have Dublin at home in the next round, a foregone conclusion) and achieved that aim. Offaly came in search of redemption, after the humiliation by Kilkenny in last week's Leinster semi-final, and left Dr Cullen Park with a decent measure of restored self-respect.