34 years.
Waterford have ended their drought with a priceless McGrath Cup victory tonight but, having waited since 1981 to reclaim the Munster competition, it is all the more sweet for the Decies.
Goals from Maurice O’Gorman, Gavin Nugent and Joey Veale helped Waterford to a nine-point 3-12 to 1-9 victory over Sigerson champs, UCC.
Tom McGlinchey’s men look intent on ramming the cynical words of the close season down their critics’ throats and they’re certainly making mugs of us even in January after we didn’t give them much of a chance in our GAA movie comparisons just a few weeks ago.
But, after their first final berth in 13 years, they’ve gone on and picked up the year’s first piece of silverware. Perhaps we should watch this space. The Division Four men could just mean business.
Naturally, the champs earned a few plaudits on Twitter.
A 34-year wait has ended as @WaterfordGAA are McGrath Cup champs with a 3-12 to 1-9 win over @ucc_gaa #GAA pic.twitter.com/G1mmY4iYEP
— Cóilín Duffy (@coilinduffy) January 24, 2015
https://twitter.com/MarkNug/status/559090527107563520
Congrats Waterford footballers the 2015 #McGrathCup champions #GAA Time to pull the open top bus out of the bog pic.twitter.com/QXwqvCPGen
— UnOfficialGaa (@UnOfficialGaa) January 24, 2015
G’wan Waterford! #McGrathCup
— Cormac O’Malley (@cormacpro) January 24, 2015
Well done to Tom McGlinchey & the Waterford footballers!! Hope its start of great year for them. Great win.@WaterfordGAA — Damian Lawlor (@LawlorDamian) January 24, 2015
Waterford Footballers currently ranked number 1 in Munster
— Cillian O’Keeffe (@chillok) January 24, 2015
Well done to the Nire and Waterford lads,! pic.twitter.com/dHmTpnL536 — NireGAA (@NireGAA) January 24, 2015
Waterford Football on the way back up #McGrathCupChamps
— Liam Mulligan (@LiamMulligan95) January 24, 2015
Waterford win the McGrath Cup Final! #Waterford4Sam @WaterfordGAA @stenners2010 pic.twitter.com/gjUHEsrYFe — Emma Dempsey (@emdemm01) January 24, 2015
Great day for Waterford football
— Kayleigh (@kvkveale) January 24, 2015
Waterford still on for the treble after that McGrath cup victory, just the Munster Championship and All-Ireland to go — Ciarán Kelly (@SkipFC) January 24, 2015
