Ballygunner and the making of a modern-day hurling superpower

Ballygunner and the making of a modern-day hurling superpower Paul Flynn, Ballygunner at the Waterford Senior Hurling Championship Final, Mount Sion v Ballygunner, Dungarvan, Co. Waterford on October 22, 2006. Picture: Damien Eagers / Sportsfile.

Waterford is a city defined by its love of hurling. The nation’s fifth-largest urban centre echoes with names woven deep into GAA folklore: Ferrybank on the northern banks of the River Suir; Erin’s Own, dominant through the 1930s and ’40s; and the indomitable Mount Sion, who still sit atop the county roll of honour. But…

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