CONGRATULATIONS

To Deirdre Kiely, Jenny Flynn, Sharon Curran and Bobby Lyons who were Deise Draw winners in the month of June.

WATERFORD INTERMEDIATE HURLING CHAMPIONS 1978

Back Row : Left to Right : Thomas Duggan, Peter Hayes, John Moylan, John O Donnell, Jimmy Sullivan, Michael Norris, Sean Murphy, John Power, Pa Meehan, Michael Donnolly.

Middle Row : Left to Right : Dave Long, Christy Phelan, Liam Simms, Eddie Sheehan, Martin Sandford (Capt.), Pat Terry, Jimmy Healy, Timmy Healy.

Front Row : Left to Right : John O Brien, Liam Egan, Noel Sheehan, Tommy Egan, Francis Power, Patsy Hackett.

Gavin Crotty on the Ball

Despite the gap in standards between division 1 and Division 4 teams, it was a special football occasion at the Fraher Field last Saturday in the All Ireland qualifiers.

Spectators enjoying the game on the  bank side of the grounds

The club was especially proud to have four players on the field at one stage  with Gavin Crotty and Kieran Power starting and Joe Allen and Michael Kiely being introduced during the second half.

Joe Allen

From a local point of view it was great to see the famed venue house such a big attendance and to see supporters from both Counties enjoy the occasion from the bank opposite the stand.

Gavin Crotty and Kieran Power.

This was always going to be a difficult game for the Deise. The aim remains to gain promotion from Division 4 and hopefully our own four players will be involved again when the National league come around.

Michael Kiely and Joe Allen.

Club teams enjoyed success over the weekend with our under 12’s beating Abbeyside away, our junior hurlers qualifying for the Western final and our under 16’s getting their championship campaign off to a good start with a win away to Portlaw.

DUNGARVAN 3-22 BALLYDUFF 2-14

Our junior hurlers qualified for this year’s Western junior hurling final by beating Ballyduff in Colligan on Friday June 22nd. In a high scoring game we led at half time by 3-9 to 1-7 with our goals coming from Liam Ryan, Brendan Cullinan and Joe Duggan.

Sean Crotty once again came up trumps from placed balls while our defence stood strong against many Ballyduff attacks. We had seven different scorers over the hour. John Havens and Sean Crotty worked very hard I lar na pairce.

Scorers : Sean Crotty 0-11(9f), Joe Duggan 1-3, Liam Ryan 1-2, Brendan Cullinan 1-1, Luke O Callaghan and Conor Duggan 0-2 each, John Havens 0-1.

Team : Gavin Power; Ger Cusack, Gary Donnolly, Aidan Connolly; Aidan Kirwan, Derek Barry, Sean Hyslop; John Havens, Sean Crotty; Denis Kirwan, Liam Ryan, Brendan Cullinan; James Kiely, Luke O Callaghan, Joe Duggan. Subs : Conor Duggan, Conor Mulcahy, Ian Sheehan, Daniel Kiely, Craig Barry, Stephen Donovan, Jamie Hallahan.

CORK 0-23 WATERFORD 1-17.

Darragh Lyons

Waterford’s under 21 hurlers gave raging favourites Cork a right run for their money in this Munster semi final encounter in Pairc Ui Chaoimh this evening (20/06/2018).

John Curran

A goal by John Paul Lucey of the Shamrocks helped the Deise to a 1-8 to 0-8 half time advantage. Sean Power’s charges led until the 49th minute when the scoreboard read 1-13 to 0-15 before wind assisted Cork finished strongly to deny a Waterford side that never through in the towel. We had two players in action leeside,  John Curran at corner back and Darragh Lyons at wing forward and both came out of this game with their inter County careers enhanced.

Our junior hurling championship game has been changed from Cappoquin on Friday evening to Colligan. Throw-in at 7.30pm.

Back Row : Left to Right : Tom Tobin (selector), Tomas Cummins, Joe Lewis, Junior Cummins, Paddy Lannon, Ray Lannon, Jim Byrne, Frank Delaney, John Moylan, Jim Dalton, Ivan Hayes, Joe Walsh, Mossie McGrath (selector), Pat Curran, Johnny Murphy.

Front Row : Left to Right : Lar Cummins, Mark Cummins, Paddy Ryan, Michael Lewis (Capt.), Con Driscoll, Conor Curran, Tolly Queally, Killian Lannon, Billy Goode (Selctor)..

In Front : Left to Right : Paddy Tobin, Jim Walsh, Michael Tobin. Missing from foto, Tom Cunningham (trainer).

John Curran and Darragh Lyons have been named on the Waterford under 21 hurling team to play Cork in Pairc Ui Chaoimh on Wednesday June 20th in the Munster semi final. Best of luck from all in the club to both players and to the Waterford team.