Waterford Rotary Club’s 24th annual Memorial Christmas Tree is open every weekend from now until Christmas, at Ireland’s largest Christmas tree in John Robert’s Square, Waterford City, and will open daily from December 17th to Christmas Eve. Christmas is such an important time for family, but it’s also a time...
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Caroline’s Greenway oasis
Caroline’s Greenway oasis
Where on the Waterford Greenway can you step into a warm and welcoming oasis to enjoy a heavenly experience which allows you to forget all your woes? ‘ Reflexology by Caroline’ situated midway on the Waterford Greenway at The Courtyard, The Workhouse, Kilmacthomas, is run by the vivacious Caroline O’Byrne who is...
Minister’s warning to Councils that reject wind farm guidelines
Minister’s warning to Councils that reject wind farm guidelines
COUNCILS across Ireland have been warned about the consequences of disregarding national guidelines on wind farms. Environment Minister Eoghan Murphy has written to all local Councils telling them that if they disregard national guidelines on wind farms, he will consider using his powers to overrule them. A planning...
Community rallies following fire at Bonmahon Pub
Community rallies following fire at Bonmahon Pub
A COPPER Coast community has rallied round in an extraordinary show of community spirit after a popular pub was badly damaged in a fire last week. A fire broke out in Hayes’s Pub in Bonmahon on Thursday afternoon last, resulting in significant damage to the building which is located near the village’s popular...
Seamus Walsh gives Ard Rí a new lease of life
Seamus Walsh gives Ard Rí a new lease of life
Seamus Walsh and his sister Bernadette Walsh (Sales & Marketing Manager at Waterford Castle) said that the hotel will also be very open to locals when it comes to weddings, nights out and dining. “We hope we’re going to give people the opportunity to re-live past Ard Rí experiences through this...
Ross Abbey in Ferrybank to finally open
Ross Abbey in Ferrybank to finally open
Ross Abbey, the Ferrybank shopping centre complex valued at €20 million upon its completion just over a decade ago, is to finally open its doors within the next six to seven weeks. One of the more sizeable properties acquired at the first Allsop Auction, the centre has been acquired by two Irish-American brothers,...
Hopes of 'Turning the Tide'
Hopes of 'Turning the Tide'
Acknowledging that ‘adventure tourism’ has been developed well in Dunmore East, Dr Byrne feels the success of the Adventure Centre provides local proof, developed over several years, that a worthwhile project can create a buy-in from residents and visitors alike. As for what events or initiatives could be developed...
Traders to take legal action over proposed casual trading byelaws
Traders to take legal action over proposed casual trading byelaws
CONCERNED traders are taking legal action over Waterford City & County Council’s proposed Casual Trading Byelaws which specify where street trading can take place. The traders’ unhappiness over the proposed byelaws which dictate where street trading can take place has resulted in objections being lodged by three...
New strategy to boost funding for costal projects
New strategy to boost funding for costal projects
BIM, Ireland’s Seafood Development Agency and the South East Fisheries Local Action Group (FLAG) recently announced a local development strategy that will deliver €1.68 million to the region. The South East FLAG is one of seven FLAG groups that are participating in the Fisheries Local Area Group scheme which is...
Councillors' concerns over drop in IDA visits
Councillors' concerns over drop in IDA visits
FURTHER concern has been expressed over the drop in IDA site visits to Waterford by prospective foreign investment companies. At the February plenary meeting of Waterford City & County Council, Cllr Mary Roche (Ind) highlighted recently released figures which show that the number of IDA site visits reduced from...
Deasy was approached by senior Garda about "untrustworthy" McCabe
Deasy was approached by senior Garda about "untrustworthy" McCabe
In January 2014, Waterford TD John Deasy (FG) was approached by a senior Garda who told him that Garda whistleblower, Sergeant Maurice McCabe, ‘couldn’t be trusted’. Interviewed by RTE’s Katie Hannon, Deputy Deasy, who, in 2014, was a member of the Public Accounts Committee (PAC), revealed...
Debating The Eighth
Debating The Eighth
Passions run high during well-attended WIT debate “The State acknowledges the right to life of the unborn, and with due regard to the equal right to life of the mother, guarantees in its laws to respect, and, as far as practicable, by it laws to defend and vindicate that right.” WIT’s main lecture hall on its Cork...