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Cuts, bloody cuts

Many staff members at Waterford Regional Hospital now fear the hospital will soon be unable to provide an acceptable level of medical and surgical treatment to the 500,000 people it serves across the South East region. Cuts amounting to savings of €7m have already been announced for WRH this year but the overall plan is to implement savings of €14m for the 12-month period with details of the further cuts yet to be revealed.

New team to tackle ghost estates

Waterford County Council has set up an in-house ‘Unfinished Housing Estates’ team to deal specifically with unfinished ‘ghost’ housing estates across the county, a Council meeting heard in Dungarvan.

Two arrested for aggravated burglary

Two men have been arrested in connection with a series of recent aggravated burglaries at homes in St John’s Park and Cherrymount and at the Carry Out in Kilcohan and an armed robbery outside the Bank of Ireland in Lisduggan.

City Council ‘cut to the bone’

Waterford City Council passed the 2012 budget estimates for the City on Monday night, despite a significant drop in funding from central government to the local authority.

The ‘lousers’ who stole Baby Jesus

Devout Christians were most upset this week when it emerged that vandals had stolen the statue of the Baby Jesus from the Nativity Crib outside the Cathedral of the Most Holy Trinity in Barronstrand Street. This was the first year that the crib was erected outside the Cathedral in the heart of the city centre and it attracted much favourable comment even from those not so religiously inclined.

Employment Action Plan cannot be a false dawn

Action is what’s now required to back up the words in the latest Government jobs plan for the region.                                                                 | Photo: Noel Browne
The eagerly anticipated action plan for addressing unemployment in the south east was finally revealed on December 2nd.

St. Caimin’s too strong for St. Angela’s

Ellie Cooney (St.Angela's) powers her way towards the opposition goal as St.Caimin's Niamh Hassett tries to keep up with her. Photo: Noel Browne
St Angela’s bowed out of the girls’ under 14 schools Munster Cup at the RSC last week when they came up against a strong and more experienced St Caimin’s team from Shannon.

The Sweet & Lowdown: Brian ‘Juckey’ Collins

You’ll laugh until they throw you out . . . Bouncers, starring Brian “Juckey” Collins, opens at the Theatre Royal on Monday . . . “

Dunnes clashes with Ferrybank developer

Dunnes Stores has disputed an arbitrator’s instruction for the retailer to pay almost €20 million to a construction company in relation to the long-awaited Ferrybank Shopping Centre.

WIT Junior Choir performs on Late Late Toy Show

Members of the WIT Junior Choir which performed on the Late Late Show’s Annual Toy Show on Friday night last.                                                                                                                                                                               |Photo: Kyran O’Brien/KOBPIX
The WIT Junior Choir performed on the Late Late Toy Show last Friday – the first Waterford group to perform on the Toy Show since the Mount Sion Silver Band in 1986.