Waterford, Ireland / WLR Jul 23, 2021 | 9:00 PM 7 June 1998; Brian Flannery of Waterford during the Munster Senior Hurling Championship Semi-Final match between Waterford and Tipperary at Pairc Ui Chaoimh in Cork. Photo by Ray McManus/Sportsfile Waterford have only lost once to Galway in championship hurling, the 2017 All Ireland final. Brian Flannery was part of the Déise team that defeated the Tribesmen in the 1998 All Ireland quarter final at Croke Park. He saved a first half penalty from Darragh Coen in front of Hill 16. “I remember it well. I’d say it was the worst hit penalty ever in Croke Park! I knocked it out for a 65 and I remember jumping around a bit. Dickie Murphy from Wexford was reffing and he started laughing at me ‘My granny would have stopped that!’ There’s a beautiful picture in my mother’s kitchen of the save. It looks well in the photograph, diving on my knees to save it but as I said, it was poorly hit penalty.”