For Halloween fans looking for a spooky staycation with a difference, Púca Festival is just the ticket. Returning to Co. Meath from 28th – 31st October, Púca celebrates Ireland as the original birthplace of Halloween. Vibrant, fun, and contemporary in feel but strongly rooted in tradition, the festival will take...
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Workshop Review of ‘Know the Chakras & Aura. Cleanse, Balance and Protect your Energy’
Workshop Review of ‘Know the Chakras & Aura. Cleanse, Balance and Protect your Energy’
No matter the foundation or direction of one’s beliefs, the realm of spirituality has a pull entirely of its own. It was in response to this pull that I decided to attend one of the increasingly-popular workshops run by the charismatic Helena B. Scott – a published author, historian, medium and spirituality...
Waterford Mayors’ Annual Gala Ball 2022
Waterford Mayors’ Annual Gala Ball 2022
Kieran Walsh One of the most popular highlights of the local social calendar – The Mayor’s Ball – returned last Saturday night after a two year sabbatical and was deemed a huge success with nearly 300 guests in attendance at the Tower Hotel. Over €20,000 was raised during the night’s auction, a hugely popular...
All-Ireland Vintage and Classic Show
All-Ireland Vintage and Classic Show
Eddie Synnott Michael Reid, Glenmore. Luke and Lailah Hennessy, Tinneranny, Rosbercon. The committee of Tullogher-Rosbercon Vintage Club are to be congratulated on the organising of the All-Ireland Vintage and Classic Show, which was held on April 24th at Rosbercon Parish Centre. While the weather proved very...
Ready, Steady, Paint! – Waterford Walls returns for its eighth year
Ready, Steady, Paint! – Waterford Walls returns for its eighth year
Waterford Walls International Street Art Festival returns to the city and county for its eighth year. The free event for all ages takes place from August 12 – 21st August and will see thirty artists from all around the world bring an explosion of colour to the walls of Waterford. Back in full festival mode...
Helen Geary named 2022 Waterford Rose
Helen Geary named 2022 Waterford Rose
Kieran Walsh The Waterford Rose of Tralee finals took place last Friday at the Tower Hotel, Waterford. It was the Ballyduff Upper woman Helen Geary that took the crown and will wear the Rose of Tralee sash for Waterford. Roses and Escorts with outgoing Waterford Rose Kirsten Mate Maher and Rose of Tralee CEO...
Official opening of Tramore’s public realm works
Official opening of Tramore’s public realm works
Justine Dwyer Pat and Mary O’Reilly, Noel, John and Sinead O’Neill, Suzanne and Stan Furlong, Olive and Stephen Quilty. Photos: Noel Browne. There was music, sunshine and lots of smiling faces in Tramore last Sunday for the official opening of Tramore’s Upper Main Street which underwent a major face lift in recent...
Tramore student takes the honours at Student Enterprise Awards
Tramore student takes the honours at Student Enterprise Awards
Handy Hurleys from Ard Scoil na Mara in Tramore has won the Senior category of the Waterford Student Enterprise Programme and qualified for the National Student Enterprise Competition. Charlotte Balfe is the founder of Handy Hurleys, a convenient and cost-effective way to store hurleys in the home or club. The...
Glenmore TY student receives enterprise award
Glenmore TY student receives enterprise award
Congratulations to Saramay Walsh, Ballybrahee, Glenmore, a Transition Year student at Our Lady of Lourdes Secondary School, Rosbercon, who received an award for over-all Senior Runner-up at the Wexford Student Enterprise Programme Awards. Saramay’s prize was for her mini company ‘200 Year Handcrafted Slates...
Blackwater Valley Opera Festival hits new high notes for 2022
Blackwater Valley Opera Festival hits new high notes for 2022
The Blackwater Valley Opera Festival (BVOF), Ireland’s unmissable summer opera, is returning on a high note for seven magical days from 31st of May to the 6th of June 2022. The festival, which attracts more than 3,000 people to Waterford and the Blackwater Valley region each year, has embarked on an even bigger...
WLR’s Big Breakfast Little Stories creator nominated for New York Festivals Radio Award
WLR’s Big Breakfast Little Stories creator nominated for New York Festivals Radio Award
Waterford-born broadcaster and journalist Karen Tomkins has been shortlisted at the international 2022 New York Festivals Radio Awards. Karen is a finalist in the ‘Best Children/ Young Adult Program’ category for her series of children’s audio stories – Big Breakfast Little Stories on WLRfm. The Radio Awards received...
Praise for Waterford in address to City Hall
Praise for Waterford in address to City Hall
Justine Dwyer Waterford is a city of promise and hope for the future declared the Prince of Wales speaking at a mayoral reception in his honour in City Hall last week. Prince Charles continued that Ireland was a country that means more to the royal couple than he could possibly say. Addressing those present in the...
