Young stars grasp chance to shine

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.

Bubbling below the surface, however, the underage scene is at boiling point, and in a quartet of tournaments this weekend, a host of budding stars will be strutting their stuff.

Prime among those tournaments is the Tony Forristal, held in memory of a man who did so much for Waterford hurling in his short life. Within a year of his tragic death in a road accident in 1981, the Waterford Crystal GAA club – whom he was managing – had instituted this tournament in his honour.