Munster Express Online

A 20 kilometre per hour increase on Waterford city’s Outer Ring Road looks increasingly likely after the City Council’s Transport Special Policy Committee (SPC) recommended a new limit of 80kph for the route.

WATERFORD City Council ranks among the lowest performing local authorities in a number of key planning related areas.

Waterford and Carlow IT’s bid for technological university status will be one of at least three and possibly more similar applications this year, it emerged this week. Five institutes of technology in the Border, Midlands and West (BMW) region have confirmed they were at “advanced stage” discussions regarding the establishment of a technological university, fuelling further [...]

Waterford County Council has granted permission to Campus Services for major changes in their grant of planning for a proposed new multi-purpose sports hall for WIT in order to incorporate teaching rooms for students.

An angry Senator David Cullinane has described the proposed cuts to services at Waterford Regional Hospital (WRH) as ‘shameful’.

Over 150 people turned out at Kill’s Community Centre on Monday night to voice their concerns over the permanent closure of the village’s post office. Kill postmaster Anton Lennon retired last year, following a raid at the post office. Since then, An Post has decided not to reopen the post office but members of the close-knit community say this is not good enough.

THE performance of the tourism industry in the south east is in line with the improved performance nationally in 2011, according to Fáilte Ireland. Data recently released by the Irish Tourist Industry Confederation (ITIC) showed that visitor numbers to Ireland increased by seven per cent in 2011 – the first increase in four years.

Significant opposition against the unification of Waterford County Council and Waterford City Council has been lodged in thirty submissions to the Waterford Local Government Committee set up to review local government in the county.