Archive for the ‘Keyes Side’ Category
Poll topping John Deasy: our political quiet man?
John Deasy is, whether he likes it or not, viewed locally and further afield as something of a political enigma.
McGuinness’s candidacy is as legitimate as any
Let’s face it: the Presidential election got a whole lot more interesting when Martin McGuinness’s name was thrown into the hat.
Waterford takes a lead in suicide prevention
“It became a growing concern among various organisations in Waterford that, we as a city, needed to do something about suicide,” according to Fran Gleeson, who co-ordinates Waterford’s Suicide Prevention Action Plan.
Saving jobs ought to be the coalition’s priority
For all the bluster there’s been from Government about job growth and making Ireland the best small country in which to do business there’s an altogether more immediate and pressing task facing the coalition: job consolidation.
‘Manning up’ will not defeat depression
Last week, a chance encounter led to the topic of this week’s column. “My husband had a difficult surgery a few months ago,” said ‘Mary’ – not her real name.
A speech that will echo beyond Béal na mBláth
Béal na mBláth is, in scenic terms, about as innocuous from a topographical perspective as, say, Ballydurn in County Waterford.
A workplace I’m incredibly proud of
The people you work with rank among the people you know best in life.
Economic myopia is a plague on all
“This country has been wrecked by about 100 people,” a local businessman put it to me during a conversation last week.
Mandatory radon testing must be introduced
While Phil Hogan has put local government reform front and centre (how odd that Waterford and Tipperary have been front-loaded while Kilkenny remains untouched),
Presidential race wide open after Norris exit
Despite suggestions of dirty tricks and dark forces conspiring against him, it would appear that Senator David Norris’s own words, and no-one else’s, drove a stake through the heart of his Presidential ambitions.