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Active Travel schemes continue to be contested topics at Waterford Council meetings, as the Active Travel work looks to prioritise vulnerable road users by creating cycle lanes and narrowing junctions, while residents and Councillors feel as though their concerns and opinions are going unheeded. Speaking at the...

The Council’s inability to replace the lights along Bilberry Road to Rice Bridge led one Independent Councillor to rage at the executive: “A crowd of fools, is all we look like to people in my view”. Councillor Joe Kelly made the comments recently at the December meeting of Waterford Metropolitan...

Fianna Fáil councillor Jason Murphy has said that Waterford retail seems stuck in the past in relation to the opening hours of the business, and has suggested that this must change as Waterford’s retail offering are “really, really, in trouble.” Speaking at the December meeting for the...

    For years residents near the old CBS site in Tramore have complained about ongoing anti-social behaviour. Despite continuous calls to address the issue, nothing seems to have been done. Raising the problem again at the December meeting for the Metropolitan area, Independent Councillor Blaise Hannigan...

Fianna Fáil councillor, Jason Murphy, has suggested there should be a six month amnesty for social housing tenants who are not officially on the rent book. Speaking at the December Plenary meeting, Cllr. Murphy, said “We all know of them, they are people that are living in council houses that are not...

“There is nowhere you can actually go to observe the sky on a clear night,” these were the words of Sinn Féin Councillor Pat Fitzgerald, during the December meeting for the Metropolitan area. “Light pollution is an issue outside the city even in the rural areas now … There is nowhere...

Waterford residents have logged 260 formal complaints to Uisce Éireann since 2022. The information was obtained by a Freedom of Information request issued by The Munster Express. The yearly breakdown is as follows: 73 complaints in 2022; 40 complaints in 2023; 77 in 2024, and 70 in 2025. As reported in recent...

Some Waterford Councillors have criticised a news report that suggested they claimed €7,000 in expenses for a one night training event in Monaghan. Opinion is divided on the usefulness of these training trips for councillors. Some sources claim these training trips are a pointless expense and say that while some...

The Council has called for public assistance to apprehend what seems to be a professional rubbish dumping operation that has targeted a rural area of West Waterford. The calls comes after a large amount of rubbish was found on a site near the village of Ballylaneen, between Kilmacthomas and Bunmahon. Niall Kane,...