For a while it was all the rage for women of all ages to raise money for charity by posing naked with their private parts hidden...
Farming
Jacobs and Waterford
Jacobs and Waterford
For the third time in about a month this column has shown a certain prescience in dealing with a number of locally related...
Election defeat for Fianna Fail no surprise
Election defeat for Fianna Fail no surprise
The local elections dealt another major blow to Fianna Fail representation. Having been hit hard in the last local elections the...
Testing times
Testing times
Well yes, the sun is out, the sky is blue, there’s not a cloud to spoil the view, but it’s raining – exams!...
Election upsets likely
Election upsets likely
It looks like the warm weather has taken people’s minds off politics as has the religious order scandals from the...
Summer neurosis!
Summer neurosis!
Summer always takes me by surprise. Instead of welcoming this weekend I have to admit to an almost overwhelming sense of panic...
Important, powerful people knew abuse was taking place
Important, powerful people knew abuse was taking place
The stories of abuse contained in the ‘Child Abuse’ report would make a stone weep but while we pour condemnation on the...
How many people walked on by?
How many people walked on by?
Two years ago I was in a shopping centre in Thurles when I overheard a middle aged woman verbally abusing a young boy of about...
Rush for the poles
Rush for the poles
Jaysus, isn’t the battle for lamppost supremacy truly raging throughout the country? I drove to Cork last week and nearly...
Politicians have earned their goodbye money
Politicians have earned their goodbye money
With only a little over a week to go to polling day, election fever continues to mount and, this time out, there is more...
Atonement priest calls for new Church State
Atonement priest calls for new Church State
Fr Michael Mernagh, the Augustinian priest who did a walk of atonement from Cobh to the Pro-Cathedral in Dublin over the...
Walking the City Walk
Walking the City Walk
This week we conclude our short series of Discover Waterford where we become tourists in our own city, exploring its storied...
