Pot holes are so deep on some of Waterford’s roads that you could nearly drown in them, it was claimed at the July meeting of the Metropolitan District Council. Cllr Davy Daniels conceded he might have been exaggerating the situation but insisted that many roads were in a dangerous state and hub caps were regularly...
Author: Tom Young
John Cummins becomes the city’s youngest Mayor
John Cummins becomes the city’s youngest Mayor
Waterford City has its youngest ever Mayor in the guise of John Cummins (Fine Gael) who took office last Monday night. His election, by nine City Council votes to five for Davy Walsh (Workers Party), with Mary Roche abstaining, was a rather grand birthday present for a man who will be 26 this Saturday. A PE teacher...
Judge states: ‘no such thing as a soft drug’
Judge states: ‘no such thing as a soft drug’
“Let nobody claim that cannabis is a harmless drug,” Judge Keenan Johnson stated in Waterford Circuit Criminal Court last week when told that a drug addict was forced to hold cannabis with a street value of more than €5,000 for a major player in the local drugs scene. “This case is a prime example of the dangers of...
Tramore Priest complains of traffic problems near Church
Tramore Priest complains of traffic problems near Church
At the May meeting of Tramore Town Council on Tuesday night of last week Area Engineer Ken Walsh pledged to meet ‘next morning’ with a local priest over serious concerns he has in relation to traffic and parking arrangements in the vicinity of Holy Cross Church. Acting on a series of complaints from parishioners, Fr...
Concerns that Tramore could become ‘defunct’
Concerns that Tramore could become ‘defunct’
Public representatives for Tramore are convinced the town is being sidelined as job and service locations are divvied out under local government reform and they fear the resort could become defunct as a consequence. Town Councillors who attended a meeting of Waterford’s Re-Organisation Implementation Group last month...
Bitter division over the Metal Man continues
Bitter division over the Metal Man continues
Bitter division over plans for Tramore’s Metal Man, as anticipated by The Munster Express was again evidenced at last week’s meeting of Tramore Town Council. Members were split as to whether they should provide a letter of support to Tramore Heritage Ltd in its efforts to attain ownership of the landmark from the...
‘Shoddy’ newspaper reporting ‘impugned Council’s integrity’
‘Shoddy’ newspaper reporting ‘impugned Council’s integrity’
A newspaper article claiming that Waterford City Council was paying more than twice the value for 11 houses it was buying from the trustees of the local Holy Ghost Hospital has been denounced as totally untrue by City Manager Michael Walsh. The Manager took time out at Monday night’s City Council meeting to spell out...
Council demands pension money for ex-Crystal staff
Council demands pension money for ex-Crystal staff
Waterford City Council has unanimously demanded of the government that it pays at least 60 pc of pension entitlements due to former Waterford Crystal workers. A motion to that effect was tabled by John Hearne (SF) at Monday night’s monthly meeting of the Council where most of the members spoke of the raw deal former...
Tramore makes its case to implementation group
Tramore makes its case to implementation group
Town and County Councillors from Tramore have been meeting recently with the Implementation Group for Waterford – the body set up by Minister Phil Hogan to oversee the amalgamation of the City and County Councils next year. A delegation of County Councillors met the Group last month and Town Councillors engaged with...
Fifty new jobs at compost centre
Fifty new jobs at compost centre
Some fifty jobs are to be created through FLI Energy’s redevelopment of the Waterford City compost centre at Kilbarry. Forty of them will be in construction and about ten operational. The Waterford-based company is to build Ireland’s first municipal anaerobic digestion plant, in partnership with the City Council, in...
City Council votes to back ‘No’ campaign
City Council votes to back ‘No’ campaign
Some government party members of Waterford City Council oppose the controversial €100 household charge, it emerged at their monthly meeting on Monday night. When the issue was debated, Labour’s Seamus Ryan (right) spoke against the tax, highlighting the inequity of the flat charge which left many families liable,...
New athletic track for Tramore?
New athletic track for Tramore?
A municipal athletic track seems set to become part of Tramore’s new Town Park. That emerged at the December meeting of the local Town Council, which heard from Town Manager Brian White that, with phase one of the park nearing completion, attention was turning to other parts of the project. He said Area Engineer...