Ephie Fitzgerald joins Waterford backroom team

Waterford football manager Tom McGlinchey is expected to add highly regarded coach Ephie Fitzgerald to his backroom team for 2016.

Fitzgerald's appointment will be ratified at the next meeting of the Waterford County Board.

Fitzgerald was involved with the Clare senior football team this year, but stepped down at the end of the season and his name was linked with the manager's position in his native Cork.

The Nemo Rangers clubman, however, has now linked up with Na Déise as a coach, where he will work with McGlinchey and selector Tony Corcoran.

Fitzgerald, who won four county titles in a row as Nemo manager from 2005 to 2008, also managed Limerick club Ballylanders in recent years, a role McGlinchey, who works as a Garda in Co. Limerick, has also held in the past.

Fitzgerald has also worked as a selector with Limerick in 2011, while he enjoyed a two-year spell as Cork minor manager.