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Thu 05 May 2007League title just a spur to bigger honoursThere are various ways of building confidence going into the championship - a training holiday, a little psychology, maybe a new pair of boots - but Donegal and Waterford have the sort of confidence money can't buy.Winning the national league is still the ideal send-off for a long summer, as both Brian Roper and Séamus Prendergast campaigned in Dublin yesterday.