Déise keeping faith in Fitzgerald

DAVY FITZGERALD’S spell as Waterford senior hurling manager has been extended into a fourth championship season following last night’s specially convened meeting of the County Board.

He was appointed for a one-year term, holding off three other challengers in former Kilkenny All-Ireland medal winner Eddie O’Connor, Mount Sion’s Jim Greene, and Michael Ryan of Fourmilewater.

It took the delegates less than 15 minutes to rubber-stamp his reappointment. The meeting also heard an impassioned plea by one delegate for “everyone in the camp to unite and go forward as one’’ into next year’s league and championship campaigns.