Galway suffer wrath of wounded Waterford

TO say this was a Lazarus-like performance from Waterford in Thurles yesterday is stretching things.

When all is said and done, Lazarus only came back from the dead but, after their seven-goal demolition by Tipperary in the Munster final only two weeks ago, Waterford came back from being dead, buried, waked and mourned with obituaries prepared, to put on a display reminiscing some great days for the Déise in Thurles over the last glorious decade.

“There were two ways you can react after a defeat like the Munster final,” said manager Davy Fitzgerald, “you can go out and take a few pints and forget about it, or you can go home and live through the hurt — and that’s very important, to hurt.”