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Building a Consensus on Our Housing Crisis
Building a Consensus on Our Housing Crisis
A Waterford-focused discussion document on housing, authored and recently published by TD David Cullinane (SF), takes issue with...
Memories Are Made of This..And That…
Memories Are Made of This..And That…
Often in discussions you will hear people talking about their earliest memories almost always relating to family situations....
Hoping for a New Dawn
Hoping for a New Dawn
A very passionate advocate for Waterford with over 40 years of professional know-how, a great deal of which has been spent at...
A University of Substance
A University of Substance
Frustration at the decades-long wait for University status in Waterford is understandable. The absence of such a status to this...
Dealing With Debt's Fallout
Dealing With Debt's Fallout
There’s a box of tissues on every desk at the Money Advice and Budgeting Service (MABS) office at Maritana Gate....
The Enduring Legacy of a Great Irish Man
The Enduring Legacy of a Great Irish Man
John Hume has spent most of the past two months in hospital, his son John Jnr told the Saint Michael’s Theatre audience in...
Thoughts on a Tuesday
Thoughts on a Tuesday
Tuesday, September 4th, 12.30pm: I’ve just completed a 500-word prologue to a book which I hope a publisher might take a gamble...
"Occasions of Sin" in a Changed State
"Occasions of Sin" in a Changed State
Professor Diarmaid Ferriter’s research into sexuality, as he informed the Central Library audience who attended his...
Martin Hayes Enthralls at St. Canice's
Martin Hayes Enthralls at St. Canice's
Acclaimed traditional musician Martin Hayes returned to perform at Kilkenny Arts Week for the fifth successive year at St...
Sex and the Irish: A Necessary Debate
Sex and the Irish: A Necessary Debate
“To work on Irish social history over the last few decades has been to research during a time of extraordinary detailed...
A Wondrous Word Weaver
A Wondrous Word Weaver
“Don’t tell me a Irish is an example of civilised humanity. He may be the devil in the clothes of an angel but either way you’re...
