Colm O'Regan: Whisper it now, but wonderful Waterford is going places

"I haven’t spoken to enough Waterford people to understand what Waterford got right. But the few answers I got all said, in local government, there were the right people in the right jobs at the right time with the right attitude to change an Irish city for the better."
Colm O'Regan: Whisper it now, but wonderful Waterford is going places

Columnist, broadcaster, comedian and author Colm O'Regan pictured in the Maryborough Hotel. Picture Chani Anderson

TO PRAISE anything in Ireland, as an outsider, is provocative. We’re suspicious of outside praise. When a global survey accused us of being one of the happiest countries in the world, we were miserable. “How DARE you say that?”

But I’m going to say it anyway as an outside, know-nothing Cork person: Waterford is the nicest city centre in the country.

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