WATERFORD

• Weather:

- In Waterford usually the weather is bad, always cloudly, usually raining... but it means that the fields will be usually or always green.

• Sports:

- Gaelic Football: Gaelic football is played by teams of 15 on a rectangular grass pitch with H-shaped goals at each end. The primary object is to score by kicking or striking the ball with the hand and getting it through the goals. The team with the highest score at the end of the match wins.

- Hurling: Hurling is an outdoor team sport of ancient Gaelic origin, administered by the Gaelic Athletic Association, and played with sticks and a sliotar. The game, played primarily in Ireland, has prehistoric origins and is the world's fastest field team sport in terms of game play. One of Ireland's native Gaelic games, it shares a number of features with Gaelic football, such as the field and goals, number of players, and much terminology. There is a similar game for women called camogie.
The object of the game is for players to use a wooden axe-shaped stick called a hurley or hurl to hit a small ball called a sliotar between the opponents' goalposts either over the crossbar for one point, or under the crossbar into a net guarded by a goalkeeper for one goal, which is equivalent to three points.

- Rugby: Rugby union is an outdoor contact sport played with a prolate spheroid-shaped ball by two teams of 15 players. It is one of the two main codes of rugby football, the other being rugb league. There is also a seven-a-side variant named rugby sevens, which is played under modified laws and with only seven players per team. Rugby union is often referred to as simply rugby, or as football, and in regions where rugby league is played, as union.