Banner headliners keep Déise focused

Waterford defenders Liam Lawlor, Michael ‘Brick’ Walsh and Kevin Moran expect a busy afternoon in Sunday’s Munster SHC semi-final against Clare.

And rightly so.

“They have four seriously fast forwards in Conor McGrath, Colin Ryan, Seán Collins and either Caimin Morey or Aaron Cunningham,” says Lawlor. “But then they have two big ball-winners in John Conlan andFergal Ryan, two very powerful men. I had the pleasure of marking Fergal on my championship debut and he’s a right handful, a good ball-player and a good hurler.