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Limerick manager John Kieley can rightfully bask in well-deserved credit today after delivering a second All-Ireland in three years to Shannonside in relentless style yesterday. But of course, in a team game success is never delivered alone. In Limerick’s case, a picture doing the rounds on WhatsApp detailing the backroom team gained a bit of traction on Sunday night due to the sheer volume of names on it, with 20 people from coaches to psychologists to statistical analysts and everything in between all part of the win. The investment made into the county by Treaty native JP McManus to help...

Sir - I wholeheartedly agreed with Eilis O'Hanlon's article in your paper last week where she said The Hunger -the RTÉ show about the Great Famine - "washed over the senses rather than engaging the intellect". I would go further and say the show presented a sanitised version of the Famine. Mention was made of Sir Charles Trevelyan but his full quote was absent, in which he stated: "God sent the Famine to punish the Irish and we should do nothing to mitigate God's will." The Famine was not just an Irish happening. Scotland was equally affected - but the Scottish landlords, led by the Matheson...

Waterford manager Liam Cahill. Photo: Sportsfile In recent years the move towards greater structure and tactical game-plans influenced Waterford too and raised the ire of some of their admirers, but there were pragmatic reasons behind it. Waterford were reigning Munster champions when Tipp fired seven goals past Clinton Hennessy in the provincial final of 2011. There has been a growing internal acceptance that ultimately if Waterford wanted to win an All-Ireland they had to be willing to compromise and change old habits. They could no longer continue hurling entirely on their own terms. Brian...

Waterford playwright and life-long Déise hurling fan Liam Heylin said the county was daring to believe in this most extraordinary of years. "It's been fantastic to follow so many legendary Waterford players and teams coming to Cork and Thurles and Croke Park over the years," he said. "This time we'll be going into deliriums in front of our tellies in corners all over the world - where 'we all loves our county too, John Mullane'. Go on the Déise!" Ballybricken, one of Waterford's oldest suburbs, was a sea of blue and white with even Santa Claus swapping his traditional red and white for the ...

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