Obituaries

Tributes to Bernadette Phillips

Tributes to Bernadette Phillips

Tributes to Bernadette Phillips

Warm tributes have been paid to Munster Express columnist and local campaigner Bernadette Phillips who has died aged 64. She had been diagnosed with cancer in October and died in University Hospital Waterford (UHW) in the early hours of Monday morning January 9th. Bernadette was a passionate advocate for the rights...
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“Portlaw’s Oldest Friend”

“Portlaw’s Oldest Friend”

Maurice Nugent laid to rest in his 102nd year When Maurice Nugent’s remains were laid to rest in Portlaw on New Year’s Eve, a part of the County Waterford village he knew better than anyone else over the past century was buried with him. During a year in which Brown Street, where he was born, reared and spent most of...
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