Archive for the ‘Local News’ Category

Ballybeg drugs party: Mother found not gulity

Betty Grey: denied knowledge
The mother of a young man who died at a party in her house was cleared of allowing drugs to be handed out at Carlow Circuit Court this week.

Online outcry over rescue helicopter cut tops 10,000

Dempsey set for grilling over southeast service at Monday’s M9 opening

Perfect Match

Waterford hurling star Ken McGrath and his beautiful bride Dawn Mulcahy with their daughter Ali after their wedding last Friday afternoon.

Putting a price on life

24-hour Coast Guard cover cut to save ‘a lousy million’.

New York trip grounded

Waterford Co Council won’t have an official delegation in New York for tomorrow’s St Patrick’s Day celebrations because of financial cutbacks.

Fire chief explains response system

The fire service in Co Waterford generally does not respond to flooding incidents, oil spills or trees down on roads unless there was a risk of personal injury, Captain Michael Hession, Chief Fire Officer told the members of Waterford Co Council.

DPP to receive file on alleged terrorist plot

Jihad Jane: alleged mastermind.
A file is being prepared for the Director of Public Prosecutions regarding an alleged plot to kill a Swedish cartoonist and newspaper editor, a plan which have may been partly co-ordinated in Waterford.

Is Passage Pontoon still ‘a terrorist risk’?

Historic ‘al fresco’ hearing of High Court

For the first time in the history of the High Court a civil case was heard ‘al fresco’ on a lawn in the grounds of Waterford Courthouse on Thursday last.

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