Waterford Minor Footballers commence their Munster Championship campaign when they travel to Tipperary this evening

This year’s Championship will see Waterford play three games in a round-robin series with the top two advancing to the Munster semi-finals

With home ties to come against Limerick and Clare, Tom Guiry’s charges will be hoping to get off to a positive start this evening

The sides met in a play-off last year in Leamybrien, with the Premier county prevailing by five points

Waterford boss  Tom Guiry says the re-structuring of this year’s Championshipis a real positive for counties like Waterford

Tom says his side will approach this evening’s with plenty of confidence

The action in Tipperary Town is underway at 6:45pm, and Tomas McCarthy will have updates across the evening here on WLR

Clare have been provincial runners-up in each of the past two seasons and begin this year’s first phase against Limerick in Newcastlewest.