Derek McGrath Interview: ‘We are trying to change a culture in Waterford’

Paranoid? Just a bit. It’s hard not to feel even your own are out to get you when the Déise are that desperate to win an All-Ireland, to consign 1959 to history. Derek McGrath understands the longing, the fear, the hype and the hope. Because he is feeling all those things himself as 2017 opens out in front of his exciting hurlers.
Derek McGrath Interview: ‘We are trying to change a culture in Waterford’
Sun, 22 Jan, 2017 - 00:00
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