But what about [insert your county here]? Don’t worry, we’ll be producing a series of articles that will cover every county in Ireland – even yours – over the next few weeks. See the ones we’ve already covered here.
1. John O’Shea scored a dramatic late equaliser in Germany to make Ireland co-world champions
2. Jack O’Donoghue captained Ireland to fourth at the Junior World Cup and also made a few appearances for the Munster senior team
3. WIT beat Cork IT to win the Fitzgibbon Cup
4. The Nire made the Munster club football final, where they were defeated by Austin Stacks
5. Cappoquin beat Bruff to become Munster intermediate club hurling champions
6. Joe Gough won the World Masters 800m Indoor Title
7. Austin Gleeson scored this screamer on his debut for the senior hurlers
8. Kelly Proper made the European Championship 200m semi-finals and also helped set a national record on the 4x100m relay team
9. Kevin Phelan had a good year on the European tour, winning over €160,000 in prize money
10. Ipswich Town striker Daryl Murphy was recalled to the Ireland squad on the back of some nice goals like this one
11. Niamh Briggs was part of the Ireland women’s rugby team that made the World Cup final and was also nominated for the IRB women’s player of the year award
12. Thomas Barr set a national record for the 400m hurdles and with 4x400m team
Waterford is by miles the best county Munster, most physically beautiful of the 6 counties, they had the best hurling team not to win an AI (and also the most entertaining Hurling team of my life time), and they’re generally nothing like Munster people either in that they’re not out of ‘Deliverance’ and a wee slagging doesn’t get their blood up in a second like it will the proud pishunate boys of the rest of the South.