Waterford County Board officials are now adamant that Walsh Park will host their Munster hurling round-robin matches this coming May and June, before work will then immediately commence on a €7 million refurbishment project to bring the county ground’s capacity up to 16,500. However in the meantime he said Walsh Park would be fit to host Waterford’s two home games this summer – against Clare on May 12th, followed by the All-Ireland champions Limerick on June 2nd. “That’s no longer in question, the Clare and Limerick games will both take place in Walsh Park,” said Ryan. At that stage Walsh Park was given a reduced capacity of just 8,000, deemed unsuitable for their home matches by the Munster Council. The bigger the stadium the bigger the cost, and this is absolutely big enough for what we want.”“And our manager as also been insisting all along that our championship games be played in Walsh Park this year.

Source: The Irish Times February 19, 2019 00:56 UTC