The Waterford County Board have released a statement to refute claims made by former Sports Minister Martin Cullen that he could have delivered a new stadium for them a decade ago had they been willing to leave Walsh Park.
Fri, 13 Jul, 2018
A row has erupted between Waterford GAA bosses and former sports minister Martin Cullen, who has claimed the county board is trying to blame him for its “own failings and inadequacies”.
Wed, 04 Jul, 2018
TOM Keane is a man to whom anybody who gives a fig about the country should listen, says Michael Clifford.
Sat, 01 Apr, 2017
Sat, 24 Dec, 2016
Wed, 27 Jan, 2016
A NEWSPAPER asserting its human rights is, well, news.
Sat, 08 Aug, 2015
Senior Celtic Tiger cabinet members, including Bertie Ahern, Brian Cowen, and Mary Harney, are still receiving gold-plated ministerial pensions worth up to €80,000 a year, despite seven years of economic crisis.
Wed, 13 May, 2015
The Supreme Court has reduced a €1.87m libel award to communications consultant Monica Leech to €1.25m.
Sat, 20 Dec, 2014
One of the country’s busiest coast guard units will begin the move from a 150-year-old shed to a state-of-the-art €1.9m station today.
Mon, 18 Aug, 2014
A businessman who received a lucrative 25-year contract to house Ireland’s ill-fated e-voting machines from a close relative in charge of deciding who won the tender has been given a €50,000 pay-off to cancel the deal.
Fri, 27 Jun, 2014
JANUARY, from Janus, the Roman double-faced god facing in opposite directions, is here.
Wed, 01 Jan, 2014
Former presidents, ministers, and judicial office holders cost the taxpayer €15.6m in pension and severance payments last year, according to figures released yesterday.
Sat, 28 Sep, 2013
Microsoft is to host a careers event at its campus in Dublin today.
Sat, 31 Aug, 2013
One of the world’s biggest companies is hosting a careers event in Dublin this month that will highlight Ireland’s skills shortages.
Tue, 27 Aug, 2013
Taoiseach Enda Kenny claimed the Government has increased taxes on high earners as TDs blasted his unwillingness to tackle the “runaway, gilt-edged pensions” of former senior politicians.
Thu, 24 Jan, 2013
Brian Cowen was paid more than €310,000 after stepping down as taoiseach last year.
Sat, 29 Sep, 2012
So — after almost ten years and the wastage of over €55m of public monies — a curtain finally draws on the E voting machines fiasco (Irish Examiner, Jun 29).
Wed, 04 Jul, 2012
Every vote counts, especially when they cost taxpayers over €55m.
Fri, 29 Jun, 2012
The electronic voting machines are to be sold on for just over €70,000 and disposed.
Thu, 28 Jun, 2012
Tony Carey beat Tony Dunlea by two bowls in the Munster veteran final at Kilcorney on Monday to set up an All-Ireland final meeting with Oliver Gribben, who retained his Ulster title on the same evening.
Wed, 27 Jun, 2012
The High Court has heard that Public Relations consultant Monica Leech's relationship with her solicitors broke down in the wake of her €1.87m libel pay out from the Evening Herald.
Tue, 07 Feb, 2012
THE Government may struggle to recover any of the €55m wasted on electronic voting machines, admitting they may end up being scrapped rather than sold.
Thu, 12 Jan, 2012
Finance Minister Michael Noonan has said that there may be a market for the obsolete e-voting machines - in Irish theme pubs.
Wed, 11 Jan, 2012
THEY say necessity is the mother of invention.
Fri, 16 Dec, 2011
MORE than 30 former ministers are in receipt of pensions in excess of €100,000 a year.
Thu, 10 Nov, 2011
ROSANNA DAVISON’S opinions are much valued in the media. Frequently, reporters ring the former Miss World seeking the benefit of her wisdom. When Michael Jackson died, she got calls asking her what she thought about it, how keenly she felt the loss.
Sat, 28 May, 2011
EVENTS in Cardiff, Croke Park and Cheltenham may be uppermost in most minds this month but Irish sport claimed its most important victory of the year yesterday when it was retained at the cabinet table by the new Government.
Thu, 10 Mar, 2011
GREATEST misnomer of the election was of any outright winner.
Thu, 03 Mar, 2011
Thu, 17 Feb, 2011
THE Labour Party has decided to run two candidates in Waterford for the first time in 42 years, despite the imminent retirement of one of its most experienced TDs.
Tue, 25 Jan, 2011
Tue, 11 Jan, 2011
Sat, 18 Dec, 2010
THE last vestige of credibility evaporated from the Progressive Democrats from the moment Michael McDowell hoist the petard that the PDs were exiting government — only to subsequently change their minds.
Thu, 16 Dec, 2010
THE then German ambassador to Ireland, Christian Pauls, made the mistake of laughing at our folly when addressing a group of German businessmen in Clontarf Castle more than three years ago, almost exactly a year before the banking crisis in the US became world news.
Thu, 25 Nov, 2010
In court, a bruised ego is more valuable than a broken back, writes Dan Buckley
Sat, 20 Nov, 2010
A FORMER mayor of Waterford has declared his intention to become the constituency’s first independent TD at the next election.
Thu, 18 Nov, 2010
FINE GAEL has secured permission from the High Court to bring proceedings aimed at forcing the Government to hold by-elections in Dublin South and Waterford constituencies.
Tue, 09 Nov, 2010
Fine Gael has been granted leave by the High Court to bring a legal challenge to the Government’s delay in calling the Waterford and Dublin by-elections.
Mon, 08 Nov, 2010
Fine Gael is going to the High Court today to put pressure on the Government to call the Waterford and Dublin by-elections.
The Government is tonight facing two more potentially damaging court battles over delayed by-elections.
Thu, 04 Nov, 2010
The long-awaited Donegal South West by-election will be held on Thursday November 25, it was revealed today.
The Government has offended the spirit of the Constitution by failing to hold the long-awaited Donegal South-West by-election, the High Court ruled today.
Wed, 03 Nov, 2010
“THEY gave me nothing and I owe them nothing” was how Jim McDaid summed up his relationship with Fianna Fáil back in 2007, just after he regained his seat on the party’s ticket in Donegal North East.
SINCE Dáil Éireann was established in 1919 there have been 125 by-elections. All but 11 of those were held within six months of the vacancy occurring. But the current Dáil has three vacancies, two of which are already more than six months old and the third well over a year and heading for a record delay.
Sat, 23 Oct, 2010
In the past it was generally assumed that by-elections should be held within six months of a Dáil seat being vacated.
Tue, 19 Oct, 2010
Sinn Féin today accused the Government of running scared of voters and wasting taxpayers' money in a court fight to prevent the Donegal South West by-election.
Mon, 18 Oct, 2010
The Government has indicated that voters in Donegal South-West, Dublin South and Waterford will go to the polls early next year.
Wed, 29 Sep, 2010
THE National Roads Authority (NRA) is to spend €200,000 on signs to direct motorists to services in towns and cities in response to criticism over the lack of service stations and lay-bys on the country’s motorway network.
Tue, 14 Sep, 2010
Former Minister Willie O’Dea has called on the Taoiseach to move the writs for byelections to fill the three vacant Dáil seats.
Mon, 13 Sep, 2010
PLANNING permission has been granted for the construction of a new €1.9 million coastguard station at Doolin – bringing to an end a 12-year campaign for a new base.
Wed, 08 Sep, 2010
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