The club attracted significant[1] national attention in 2020 when a player competed in the final of the Waterford Intermediate Football Championship despite awaiting the result of a COVID-19 test, which returned a positive result.[2][3][4][5][6] This led to Dungarvan (that year's competition-winning club) being stripped of the title.[7][8][9]
^"Dungarvan GAA should take punishment 'on the chin' says Bernard Flynn". 27 October 2020. The two-time All-Ireland winner and RTE pundit, speaking to Philip Boucher Hayes on this morning's 'Today with Claire Byrne' programme on RTE Radio One, felt that the Waterford County Board 'had to come down with a firm hand' on this matter.