Mark Roper, with his new book of poetry -Even So : New And Selected Poems – is a great achievement and a welcome...
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Review: A Place With The Pigs
Review: A Place With The Pigs
Carrick’s Brewery Lane Theatre introduced their newest director, Enda O’Driscoll, in style with Weekend Supper...
Review: Festival Favourites
Review: Festival Favourites
While the title might have been a bit of a misnomer – Festival Favourites – the WIFLO concert at Christ Church...
Council counting costs of Traveller feud
Council counting costs of Traveller feud
The fiscal cost of the recent Traveller feud on local resources was further highlighted this week, when it emerged that the City...
Rural patients face lengthy wait for ambulance
Rural patients face lengthy wait for ambulance
The HSE has refuted suggestions that the lives of people in West Waterford are bring put in jeopardy because of lengthy...
Ferrybank burglaries – gardai urge vigilance
Ferrybank burglaries – gardai urge vigilance
Gardai have urged the public to be vigilant following burglaries at five houses in the Ferrybank area during Sunday night. The...
VHI SwiftCare Clinic opens at Whitefield
VHI SwiftCare Clinic opens at Whitefield
The VHI SwiftCare Clinic located within Whitfield Clinic on the outskirts of Waterford, is now open to treat patients with minor...
Funding ringfenced for city's flood relief
Funding ringfenced for city's flood relief
Work is expected to get underway in the middle of 2009 on a series of reinforced concrete and glass flood walls along Scotch and...
National Treatment Purchase Fund: Relief for thousands of patients
National Treatment Purchase Fund: Relief for thousands of patients
A total of 4,334 of public patients from Waterford have now benefited from faster treatment through the work of the National...
Taxis struggling after tenfold increase
Taxis struggling after tenfold increase
Taxis in Waterford City have increased tenfold since deregulation and the vast majority of them now struggle to make a living,...
Yobs forcing right-of-way closure
Yobs forcing right-of-way closure
The behaviour of “drunken yobs” seems set to lead to closure of the pedestrian right-of-way between Ballytruckle...
Stroke strategy "would save 500 lives"
Stroke strategy "would save 500 lives"
A call went out this week from Waterford City Council for the Health Minister and HSE to implement a Stroke Strategy to greatly...
