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Major retailer eyes City Square
The news emerged in the same week that another leading ladies fashion store based in City Square, Wallis, would be closing on 1st March, with the loss of a number of part-time and full-time jobs.
The proposed new development will stretch along the Arundel Square façade of City Square from Sully’s as far as [...]
Major retailer eyes
A major ladies fashion retailer is in advanced negotiations to open a unit in City Square, the Munster Express can reveal.
Waterford City Council received a planning application in early December to amalgamate and modify a number of units at the front of the shopping complex, to allow for the creation of a large two storey [...]
Trade in illicit cigarettes is ‘damaging local shops’
Up to €11 million is being taken out of the Waterford economy due to the trade in illicit cigarettes: that’s the claim being made by the company which supplies two popular cigarette brands to stores in the city and county.
Speaking exclusively to The Munster Express, Alec Elliott of JTI Ireland (suppliers of Benson & Hedges [...]
Overwhelming support for County Council Budget
Waterford County Council’s 2014 Budget won the overwhelming support of Councillors in Dungarvan on Thursday afternoon last (20-3), just hours before their colleagues in City Hall followed suit.
Michael Walsh, who attended both meetings in his new brief as overall Local Authority Manager, said that the overall goal for Waterford, as a single administrative entity [...]
Tramore storm damage could run to €8 million
The recent storm damage in Tramore could cost close to €8 million to repair, according to a local expert.
January’s Town Council meeting heard from Area Engineer Ken Walsh that a cursory estimate put the cost initially at about €2.5 million, but he said the figure could treble that amount when a complete survey of the [...]
Tom Murphy on ‘a renewed sense of optimism in the city’
“I’ve been in this business for 45 years,” Tom Murphy tells The Munster Express in the office of his busy showroom on the Cork Road.
“And when you’ve worked in a business for that length of time – and it’s the only business I’ve ever worked in, you note patterns and trends, be they positive or [...]
Cullinane critical of Taoiseach’s claims on pylons
Senator David Cullinane has criticised Taoiseach Enda Kenny’s reference to emigration in an attempt to justify the EirGrid pylon project.
“To justify a project, that is seriously lacking in credibility, by linking it to emigration and unemployment is a cynical means of distracting from the issues surrounding EirGrid,” said the Sinn Féin representative.
“Frankly, the Taoiseach is [...]
Waterford Chamber welcomes new lower ARV for businesses in Waterford City
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omes very encouraging news for businesses in the City following last week’s Waterford City Council Annual Budget mee
ting at which the ARV for 2014 was passed by the Council at .252
Commercial ratepayers can now calculate their exact liability for 2014 and for a very significant number of businesses; the outcome will be a welcomed [...]
Money Times with Jill Kerby – When the mortgage letter arrives
So what can distressed mortgage-holders take away from last week’s grilling of four bank bosses (AIB, Bank of Ireland, Ulster Bank and PTSB) by the Oireachtas Finance Committee members?
Firstly, the Committee was given a confused and incomplete picture of the ‘long term and sustainable’ mortgage solutions that the banks are being compelled to put [...]
Determined first time buyers get Budget boost
There was, unfortunately, very little good news in last week’s Budget.