WLR News Editor and former Munster Express journalist Kieran Foley has been nominated for a national Mental Health Media Award. Established over a decade ago and relaunched in 2019, Headline’s Mental Health Media Awards recognise excellence in media coverage of mental health issues. The ceremony takes place in...
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New MD at The Munster Express
New MD at The Munster Express
Kieran Walsh, the managing director of the 163-year-old family-run newspaper, The Munster Express, is set to retire and a new MD from in-house is to take up the role, along with becoming the main shareholder. The region’s oldest newspaper is now in the steady hands of Doreen Connolly, who has worked within The...
Recruitment: 24th November 2023
Recruitment: 24th November 2023
The Munster Express has the latest job opportunities from across Waterford and the South-East online and in our print editions. Cleaner required for Strangsmills NS Kilmacow 20 hours per week or two positions of 10 hours each also considered. Previous experience working as a cleaner in a school, hospital or factory...
Traffic island “mess” at ‘top of the town’ must be removed urgently, says Cllr Kelly
Traffic island “mess” at ‘top of the town’ must be removed urgently, says Cllr Kelly
Independent representative Joe Kelly has called on Waterford City & County Council to remove the traffic ‘island’ at the junction of Newgate Street and Stephen Street/Browns Lane. Cllr Kelly explained how “the traffic island and traffic lights were put in as part of a rerouting of traffic as part of the planned...
Comedy announced for ATN23 plus Food & Feasts, Wellness area & Greencrafts village
Comedy announced for ATN23 plus Food & Feasts, Wellness area & Greencrafts village
ALL TOGETHER NOW Bank Holiday Weekend Aug 4th – Aug 6th, 2023 Curraghmore Estate, County Waterford, Ireland ** COMEDY ANNOUNCED FOR ATN23 ** ** FOOD & FEASTS ** ** WELLNESS AREA ** ** GREENCRAFTS VILLAGE ** Glastonbury weekend has given us a little taster of what’s to come in just 5 weeks’ time! If you got...
ALL TOGETHER NOW 2023
ALL TOGETHER NOW 2023
Bank Holiday Weekend Aug 4th – Aug 6th, 2023 Curraghmore Estate, County Waterford, Ireland ** 100+ NEW ARTISTS ANNOUNCED FOR ATN23 ** ** 3 STAGE LINE-UPS ANNOUNCED ** We are so excited to announce 100+ more acts to our line up for this year’s All Together Now! Plus, Tommy Tiernan joins us for Brunch on The...
Speaking from experience: the lows of high life. Kill talk on drugs issues
Speaking from experience: the lows of high life. Kill talk on drugs issues
Conor Harris from Kildare, a talented footballer in his youth and a minor medal winner for the Lilywhites, told how he took the wrong path on drugs. However, he turned his life around and is now a counsellor trained in drug rehabilitation and doing talks around Ireland. He shared his experiences, along with another...
PARADE RING FOR KELYN
PARADE RING FOR KELYN
National boxing champion Kelyn Cassidy has been announced as the Grand Marshall of the 2023 Waterford St Patrick’s Day parade. The 24-year-old representative of Saviour’s Crystal Club is also a leading member Irish Amateur Boxing Team. He is the reigning and back-to-back National Senior Elite Light Heavyweight...
Waterford SPCA becomes ISPCA Waterford in 2023
Waterford SPCA becomes ISPCA Waterford in 2023
Damien Tiernan of WLRFM invited Barbara Bent, Treasurer of Waterford SPCA and Dr. Cyril Sullivan C.E.O. of the Irish Society for Prevention of Cruelty to Animals, (ISPCA) on his Deise Today show this week. Barbara and Cyril were on the show to announce the recent amalgamation of Waterford SPCA with the national ISPCA...
Successful year for Waterford’s Marathon Man
Successful year for Waterford’s Marathon Man
Kieran Foley Waterford’s Alan Corcoran is basking in the glow of a successful 2022 and eagerly looking forward to the New Year. Alan’s ‘Marathon Man’ book amassed numerous accolades during the year and his new documentary film ‘Unsinkable’ is set to be screened in Waterford in 2023. ‘Marathon Man’ has won rave...
Waterford war hero to be honoured with memorial trail
Waterford war hero to be honoured with memorial trail
Kieran Foley TOM McGrath, the Waterford man who escaped a German prisoner-of-war camp during the Second World War, is to be honoured with the staging of the cross-Pyrenees Tom McGrath Historical Memory Trail. A remarkable chapter in the life of this Waterford man, who was born in Portlaw in 1904, was discovered by...
New Waterford Clinic – Roche Injury Clinic
New Waterford Clinic – Roche Injury Clinic
Roche Injury Clinic provides the highest standard of care possible to help you recover from injury and become pain free. All of the treatments which they offer are in line with the latest research and advancements in physical therapy. David Roche is a multidisciplinary therapist with BSc, Pg Dip’s, MSc and specialist...