By Tadhg Peavoy
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RESULT: WATERFORD 0-22 CLARE 1-15
4.34pm Wherever you are in the world, thanks for joining us and see y'after.
4.31pm A tremendous effort from Clare. They are a young side and showed they will be a force to be reckoned with in years to come. But, today The Déise used their experience to wear Clare down. Can Waterford up their game? They need to, if they don't they will struggle in the final.
70+3 mins Clare are exhausted, they've given it everything but look drained. Cooney fires at goal. Clinton Hennessy saves it. It's all too late though, referee Brian Gavin of Offaly blows his whistle for full-time.
70+1 mins Seamus Prendergast, under extreme pressure from three tacklers, fires home from 20 yards. He has been a super sub of the highest order today.
70 mins Injury time. Clare need a goal. But, they lose possession in the Waterford box. Two minutes to be added on.
68mins We are in the final lap here. This is an epic and finely poised battle. Free out to Waterford. Clare's Cooney picks the ball off the ground 20 yards from goal. Eoin Kelly steps up for the free. It's easy for him an that could be crucial. Ken McGrath fires over another from the left flank 20 seconds later. Match winner!
67 mins Conlon fires at goal, but Michael Brick Walsh blocks down. Eoin Kelly is fed the ball for Waterford. But, he can't guide it home.
66 mins A 65 for Clare. The keeper put it over dead ball line. The ball drops in the box and nobody touches it. It could have crept into the corner there.
65 mins Ken McGrath is on for Waterford's Moran.
64 mins Yet another wide for Waterford. This could haunt Waterford.
63 mins Tony Browne has been clattered and is down on the ground. The physio is on to help. He is okay to go on though.
61 mins Seamus Prendergast wides from 30 yards. He had two men in support and also plenty of space to run into.
60 mins Dan Shanahan is off. He just couldn't get going today at all. One of those days for the big man.
58 mins Seamus Prendergast bangs over another point from 20 yards. Clare break right back, with Barrett raiding into the Waterford box and sticking it over the bar.
57 mins Ten wides a piece for both sides - a high tally.
55 mins Fergal Lynch tries to gather in the box, he can't manage it. Waterford break and Moran smashes home for Waterford.
54 mins Three players go up for a breaking ball, none get it and it drops into Honan's lap. He lashes it over. 1-03 for Honan now.
54 mins Liam Lawlor gets a yellow.
53 mins John Conlon wides for Clare. That is the Banner's tenth wide.
51 mins Seamus Prendergast has a lash at goal with his first touch. It's wide though - perhaps he was a little too eager for that first score.
50 mins Seamus Prendergast, Declan's brother, is on for Waterford.
49 mins Cormac O'Donovan gets the ball from Conlon, wide on the left, without a look at goal, he fires across the chest of the defender and gets a point.
48 mins Molumphy gets a third point. He was 20 yards out and had his back to goal. With ease he turned his marker and split the posts.
47mins Prendergast points for Waterford. He came on at half-time.
46 mins Clancy - Man of the Match so far - gets another point from open play. That puts Clare ahead again.
45 mins Mullane hammers home a point from the right flank.
43 mins Dan Shanahan gets the ball in the Clare area, he beats the keeper to the ball, but steers the sliotar wide of goal.
42 mins Maurice Shanahan belts the ball over the bar, but in the build up he left the ground and shouldered Conlon - should have been a free to Clare.
40 mins Honan claims on the right, he tires to play a massive crossfield pass, but it's intercepted. Honan is prominent in all Clare do at the minute.
38 mins Line ball by Shane O'Sullivan. It's a sweet cut, but fades draws at the end and mises the mark.
37 mins Honan, without even looking up, fires a point over from 40 yards. Superb point.
36 mins And, it's back to the action. Throw-in takes place. Kevin Moran strikes the first point of the half. Molumphy knocks over another point soon after.
HALF-TIME: WATERFORD 0-09 CLARE 1-10
3.47pm Dam Shanahan: magic or muck, depending on the day. So far, it's been the latter, but he may yet turn the game.
3.44pm The Monday Game panel are building up the play of Clare's Clancy. Waterford will want to pay him far more attention second half. Playing with the wind may also help give Waterford a boost.
3.43pm Well, that was a fierce half of hurling. Clare were slow out of the traps, but hit their stride eventually. Three times they scored two points within 20 seconds of each other. That kind of tenacity and their midfield display has put Waterford in a tricky spot for the second half.
35+2 mins Yellow card for the goalscorer Honan. Eoin Kelly takes the resulting free. He works it to Kevin Moran 25 yards out on the right flank. He does the business, firing home the shot.
35 mins We are in injury time. Eoin Kelly has a free to narrow the gap. From 30 yards he splits the posts. Crucial point there to narrow the gap.
33 mins From 20 yards out, there is a clash for the sliotar on the ground. Darragh Honan claims it and steaming in on goal, he fires for the net. It is directed right at the top right-hand corner, the keeper had no chance. GOAL FOR CLARE!
Ryan adds a point for Clare soon after and the Banner are sailing at present.
31 mins Mullane is fed the ball from a right flank pass. He loses it first time, but is fed the ball again from the ensuing play. With his back to goal, he riffles a low shot between the posts from 30 yards.
30 mins Colin Ryan is over on the right, at halfway, to take a free. He hits it to the left and that's a poor effort.
28 mins Ger O'Loughlin strikes from 50 metres out. It's just to the right of the centre, but he puts it wide. Waterford are widing far too many chances now. The wind is no doubt playign a part. But, Maurice Shanahan wins the ball from the clearance and points from 20 yards. That's his first point ot the day.
26 mins A midfield ball is palyed through to Dan Shanahan, he sticks out the hurl to secure the possession, but just misses it. The ball goes straight through to Tuohy in the Clare goal . Clare break downfield and Clancy finishes another well-worked move for Clare.
25 mins Brian O'Connell has a chance at the other end for Clare. As he hits it the sliotar slides off the hurl slightly and he skims it wide to the right.
23 mins Mullane has an effort from the 45 yard line, but he puts it to the right. Mullane is strangely quiet - he is getting very little possession. Eoin Kelly wins the ball with a high catch; however, and fires home. He is the talisman for Waterford at present.
22 mins Eoin Kelly free for Deise, on the far right at halfway. A sweet strike splits the post.
21 mins Nicky O'Connell fires another point from open play just twenty second later. Clare are winning so much ball in midfield under the breaking ball. Waterford are struggling to get the ball to their fron three.
20 mins Nicky O'Connell smashes home a free for Clare from 25 yards. The wind is with Clare and it's helping with those frees.
19 mins Jamie Nagle is down injured for Waterford. Declan Prendergast warms up on the touchline.Nagle is okay to continue though.
18 mins Eoin Kelly takes a free for Waterford, way, way out. He puts it to the right.
17 mins Clare add another soon after. For the second time today they score two points in quick succession.
14 mins Shane O'Sullivan punts a long ball into the area, the ball breaks badly for them and the Banner County clear. It's some aerial ping-pong at present as both sides attempt to gain an opening. Nicky O'Connell finds that space and shoots home from 30 yards, he splits the posts. Point to Clare.
13 mins Conor Cooney fouls Mullane as he attacks, free-in Waterford. Mullane was in on goal for an Deise. The free is riffled straight over.
11 mins Free-in to Clare. Colin Ryan takes it, the whole stadium thought he would take the point, but he went for the onion sack. The shot is straight at the keeper, questionable decision from Ryan.
9 mins Jonathan Clancy adds another soon after. From a similar distance out, but on the left flank. Conlon 30 seconds later wins a ball in the midfield and hits it first time, he makes it. Clare have turned this around in a minute.
8 mins Sean Collins picks up the ball 20 yards out for Clare, he gives a burst of speed to beat his marker and fire home - Clare are off the mark.
6 mins Waterford win a free-out, they fail to make use of it.
5 mins Clare can't hold on to any possession and need a a score to settle their nerves.
4mins John Mullane smashed the sliotar at goal while holding off his marker, he splits the posts.
2mins Patrick Donnelan charts another wide for Clare. Dan Shanahan underhits a chance for Waterford at the other end.
1min Puck out for Waterford. Noel Connors lumps it downfield. Stepehn Molumphy picks the breaking ball and hits home for the opening point.
2.59pm This is the 29th Championship meeting between the sides. Clare have won 15 to Waterford's nine - throw-in has happened. We're off in Semple Stadium.
2.55pm The usual pre-match lap of the pitch is taking place. Waterford v Clare: massive favourites versus a talented young Clare side - sure where else would you be.
2.53pm The teams are out on the pitch folks. The rain is drizzling down and action is on the way.
1449 Clare: D Touhy; P Vaughan, C Dillon, C Cooney; B Bugler, D McMahon, P Donnellan; B O’Connell, N O’Connell; S Collins, J Conlon, J Clancy; F Lynch, D Honan, C Ryan.
Waterford: C Hennessy; E Murphy, L Lawlor, N Connors; T Browne, M Walsh, J Nagle; S O’Sullivan, R Foley; D Shanahan, K Moran, S Molumphy; J Mullane, E Kelly, M Shanahan.
Referee: Brian Gavin (Offaly).
1442 Conditions are not ideal in Semple Stadium, it looks a small crowd on a worry wet day for hurling.
1430 Welcome to text commentary on the first Munster Senior Hurling Championship semi-final as Waterford take on Clare in Semple Stadium.
