Hurlers uniting city and county like never before

THE WOMAN had rung the radio show from Cappoquin. There was gloom in west Waterford with the proposed liquidation of the local chicken processing plant, but the lady on the line was having none of it.

She was wishing the Waterford hurlers the best for Sunday and inviting all and sundry up to Cappoquin to see the colours flying in the town.

The man who took the call, Billy McCarthy of WLR, is well placed to take the temperature in Waterford; his morning talk show is a barometer of popular feeling in the Déise.