The case for safeguarding regional journalism within the public service funding sphere has long been clear as far as this...
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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...
Fitness for All
Fitness for All
A range of innovative local classes are helping older people to get active, proving that age is no barrier to keeping fit. WITH...
Hopes for a Spring Tide
Hopes for a Spring Tide
As far as most Irish are concerned, Spring has sprung once more, and hopes for a progressive year in Waterford and across the...
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...
Honouring a GAA stalwart
Honouring a GAA stalwart
Noel O’Sullivan was recently given a special presentation in recognition of his distinguished service to the GAA. NOEL...
Are the Irish over-qualified?
Are the Irish over-qualified?
A Sunday Times report over the weekend put Ireland at the top of the league in terms of overeducation in Europe.Cormac...
A Community on Alert
A Community on Alert
Numerous groups throughout the locality are striving to prevent instances of criminal activity within their own communities. One...
Minister outlines mortgage plan but more supply needed
Minister outlines mortgage plan but more supply needed
We listened with interest to Housing Minister Eoghan Murphy’s offer for a new initiative on housing. The 1000 mortgages offer at...
Farewell to Faha's Friend
Farewell to Faha's Friend
LAST week the small community of Faha outside Kilmacthomas mourned the death of one of its oldest and longest residents.Each...
Farming to a New Beet?
Farming to a New Beet?
News that a site is to be acquired on the Carlow-Kildare border for a proposed new sugar beet processing site has been widely...
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...
