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Car-Parking in Waterford for Winterval Festival
Thousands free parking spaces will be made available in Waterford City for the duration of the Winterval Festival at three different access points to the city. Free spaces are available from they weekend (Friday, December 6th) at WIT College Street Campus, De La Salle College on the Dunmore Road and for traffic from the Wexford [...]
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WINTERVAL BOOST FOR WATERFORD
The arrival of Santa Claus in Waterford on Friday last kicked off the second annual Winterval Festival, with the streets of the city a frenzy of festive activity over the weekend. With festival organisers estimating 500,000 visitors in Waterford between now and New Year’s Eve, early indications suggest that businesses in the city centre will benefit [...]
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City bus routes to be privatised
Bus Eireann has confirmed that a number of city bus routes are to be privatised under new plans announced by the National Transport Authority on Tuesday afternoon. The local routes affected by the decision will be the Ballybeg-The Quay (601); Saint Johns Park-Patrick Street (602); WIT-The Quay (603); Carrickphierish Road-The Quay (604); Oakwood-The Quay-Waterford Regional Hospital (605); and Waterford-WIT-Tramore (360/360A). The routes which will be opened up to competition were decided at [...]
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Justice delayed is justice denied
Justice delayed is justice denied. Never has this been more true then in the case of the former Waterford Crystal workers and their ongoing fight to secure their pensions. In January 2009, workers at the Kilbarry plant were informed their jobs were gone as the company went into receivership before it was eventually bought by an [...]
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Government set to move on Defined Benefit legislation
While cautiously welcoming the Government’s intention to introduce legislation to provide a level of protection for contributors to Defined Benefit (DB) schemes that encounter difficulty, Unite believe that the coalition must do more for workers. According to the union’s Regional Secretary Jimmy Kelly, a safety net of sorts for scheme members should their company be restructured, [...]
Sport
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Waterford Castle and Golf Club celebrates local hero
Waterford Castle and Golf Resort is celebrating the achievements of local golfer Kevin Phelan. The 23-year-old will pay in the European Tour next season after claiming his card in the final qualifying event in Spain last month. All associated with the picturesque island golf club [...]
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Grounds for concern again about stadium development
The news that the Munster Council had rejected a request from Waterford to have Walsh Park host Munster Championship Senior games, while disappointing, was not altogether unexpected. I expect that old chestnut ‘Health and Safety’ which can be used to justify most such decisions if you look at an issue long enough, is bound to feature [...]
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Elite Under 19 FAI Cup Waterford United 5 – St Patrick’s Athletic 2
Waterford United 5 St Patrick’s Athletic 2 Tommy Griffin and his charges continue to turn on the style and on Saturday last at the RSC they defeated St Patrick’s Athletic emphatically in the Under 19 Cup. They had won the previous five league games to move into second place on the league table and now t have moved into [...]
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Carlow inflict second defeat on WIT
WIT 0 Carlow IT 3 WIT suffered a disappointing home defeat last week at the RSC when they were beaten by an extremely strong Carlow IT team. Having lost one previous home game this season to UCC the side managed by Paul O’Brien were keen to get back to winning form at home but the double champions of [...]
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Winter League, week 2
As always, the second week of the league was extremely busy last week, with 120 new runners registering, bringing the number to date to almost 700. The number of runners on the night was over 550, and again there was a terrific atmosphere as runners chatted about their handicaps and wondered if they’d be as fast [...]
Willie Maher relishing his new Deise challenge
Willie Maher eases into a seat in the lobby of The Granville Hotel for his first Munster Express interview as a member of Waterford’s new senior hurling management team. Ireland’s Hotel of the Year is awash with customers and Christmas shoppers, and is also playing host to a low-key get-together for the Deise’s new ‘men on [...]
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Ballysaggart march into provincial final
Ballysaggart 1-12 Knockshegowna (Tipperary) 1-05 Waterford junior hurling champions Ballysaggart had it all their own way for most of this Munster club semi-final against Tipperary representatives Knocksegowna before winning in the end by seven points. Played in front of an attendance of 768 at Fraher Field on Sunday last the West Waterford side had a much more comfortable [...]
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Great breakthrough still eludes Deise footballers
Sunday afternoon in Ennis. If one infamous Manchester United’s kit had been as the grey as the clouds draping the Banner capital, Alex Ferguson might never have retrieved his squad from that ignominious trip to Southampton, let alone see them again! I’m spinning towards my parking spot near the home of the All-Ireland Hurling champions when [...]
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Cratloe edge past Courty
Cratloe 1-10 – Ballinacourty 0-11 Cratloe, who were crowned Clare Senior Football champions for the first time only 24 hours previously, edged out Deise kingpins Ballinacourty in an end-to-end Munster Senior Club semi-final at Cusack Park on Sunday last. The Banner side, who had six of Clare’s All-Ireland winning hurlers on the pitch during this gripping tie’s closing [...]
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'Shake Skin' by the brilliant Waterford band Kodakid. They have been chosen by Hot Press magazine as one of the finalists in The Big Break competition. Visit www.hotpress.com to cast your vote for them.
Entertainment
The Sweet and Lowdown
RoseAnn Foley has directed several documentaries for TG4 about Waterford people, or people with connections to the region. Her latest work, about Hollywood legend Tyrone Power, explores the matinée star’s links with Kilmacthomas. A native of Waterford city, RoseAnn moved with her family to the Ring Gaeltacht when she was a child. However [...]
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Irish music legends
Legends of Irish music and song The Fureys and Davey Arthur will make their 4th appearance in the Theatre Royal, Waterford on Saturday 23rd November. The band was formed in 1978 literally by accident. George, Paul and Davey were playing in Denmark with their own band called the Buskers and Eddie and Finbar, while touring in [...]
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Rewind – New play by Jamie Nagle
Crooked Lane Productions, Waterford’s newest theatre company, will present ‘Rewind’ at Garter Lane from Saturday, 30th November to Sunday, 1st December. An entirely original drama written, directed and produced by local actor and aspiring director Jamie Nagle, this production has evolved from a simple concept to a fully functional theatrical show following months of writing, editing, [...]
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7th annual Waterford Film festival
The 7th annual Waterford Film festival opened on the 8th of November and took place over three nights, with the screening of four short film programs and culminating in the awards ceremony on Sunday, 10th November. Of the hundreds of submissions received from home and abroad, 36 short films were selected to be showcased. The [...]
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100 Ways to See Our World
100 Ways to See Our World’ is an exhibition of paintings by local 2nd year students that will run at the Index Gallery in Central Library until 30th November. The work is by over one hundred pupils from the Presentation, Mount Sion and De la Salle secondary schools. Some of the paintings are based on work [...]
Business
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‘Visionary’ GROW HQ hailed by An Taoiseach
Taoiseach Enda Kenny was in Dooley’s Hotel on Saturday last to help GIY launch its fundraising campaign for GROW HQ, the GIY national food education centre which will be based in the city. Founder Michael Kelly announced that GIY has made significant strides towards its €750,000 fundraising target, having already secured €100,000 in funding from Bord [...]
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New home builds drop 93 per cent
Just 159 new homes have been built in Waterford so far this year, newly released figures show. As the local construction industry continues to suffer the impact of the economic crash, new figures from the Department of the Environment show that just 57 homes were completed in Waterford city and a further 102 in the county [...]
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Newfoundland Jobs Fair promotes Canadian ‘home away from home’
A jobs fair aimed at enticing aspirant workers from Waterford to Newfoundland was recently held at the Granville Hotel, which attracted several hundred jobseekers. The province, home to one of the largest Waterfordian diasporas in the world, is going through its own economic boom at present and is keen to entice an educated workforce to meet [...]
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Job uncertainty at two local firms
Staff at two Waterford businesses were facing job insecurity this week, as it was announced that retail chain Barratts Shoes, which has a branch in City Square, had gone into receivership, while packaging firm Essentra were initiating a 30-day ‘consultation period’ [...]
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Rates Relief For City Businesses
Business owners in Waterford City are exhaling in relief after a deal was brokered with City Hall in relation to the payment of Commercial Rates for 2014. The news, coming six weeks after businesses received blunt instruction from a Waterford City Council-appointed Revenue Collector regarding the payment of outstanding rates, has offered some respite for hard-hit [...]
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Indulge in luxury at the Cliff House Hotel
Splendour, warmth and a truly memorable feeling – words to describe my recent visit to the glorious Cliff House Hotel in Ardmore. Regarded as one of the finest small luxury five-star hotels in Ireland, the seaside boutique hotel features an intimate destination spa as well as an award winning restaurant. Arriving 30 minutes early my companion and [...]
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Jobs still topping Chamber’s agenda
Waterford Chamber President Nora Widger re-iterated that the creating of new employment, the retention of existing jobs and the support of local business remained her organisation’s mission statement. Addressing last Friday’s annual Chamber Dinner at the Tower Hotel, [...]