On Friday afternoon, the rain came down in torrents and by 5.30pm, most people with any distance to travel reluctantly decided...
Author: John O Connor
No Grant For One-Armed Mother
No Grant For One-Armed Mother
Sometimes it’s hard not to despair when yet another example raises its head about official red tape that makes no sense at...
Numbers at Kerry Airport Expanding
Numbers at Kerry Airport Expanding
There is no point in going on and on about the loss of commercial flights in and out of Waterford Regional Airport but something...
Mary McAleese caught up in “Vatican Civil War”
Mary McAleese caught up in “Vatican Civil War”
A decision by a powerful Vatican body to bar former president, Mary McAleese, from speaking at a conference in the Vatican to...
Leave the judges and their poor boxes alone
Leave the judges and their poor boxes alone
The matter of District Court judges using the ‘poor box’ as a means of defendants avoiding a conviction is once again back in...
Air Quality in New Ross “is worse than Beijing”
Air Quality in New Ross “is worse than Beijing”
Former Tánaiste Mary Harney will always be remembered as the minister who saved thousands of lives by introducing smokeless coal...
Mobile Phone Health Debate Back on Agenda
Mobile Phone Health Debate Back on Agenda
The debate about mobile phone radiation and whether or not it is damaging to health is back on the agenda. It first emerged...
A farewell to Dick Warner
A farewell to Dick Warner
President Michal D Higgins led the tributes to Dick Warner (70), the golden voiced documentary maker with a poet’s turn of...
Did Judge miss a golden opportunity?
Did Judge miss a golden opportunity?
A distinguished, Kilkenny-based artist was escorted out of Athy District Court recently for sketching Judge Desmond Zaidan....
Joe Dolan still drawing the crowds
Joe Dolan still drawing the crowds
It seems the late Joe Dolan is still as popular as ever and while the authorities in his native Mullingar are very proud of...
Austin Deasy: a true colossus of Waterford politics
Austin Deasy: a true colossus of Waterford politics
Austin Deasy was a colossus of Waterford politics during the 1980s and 1990s and was an influential Minister for Agriculture for...
The Prince of Gaffes
The Prince of Gaffes
Even though he is probably a right contrary old sod, we will miss Britain’s Prince Philip, the Duke of Edinburgh, who is...
