Set sail for Waterford

CLEAR the decks, nail your colours to the mast and check the cut of your jib.

The tall ships are coming to Waterford, and there won’t be a bigger quayside festival this year.

Some 50 grand vessels are setting sail for the Déise, and the city is gearing up to treat some half-a-million festival-goers to a weekend of live music, crews’ parades, funfairs, food villages and fringe festivals before the ships slip away down the River Suir on Sunday, July 3.