A Catholic religious group has undergone pre-planning consultation with Waterford Council in advance of an “imminent” application to open a female-only addiction rehabilitation centre in the west of the county.

The legislation had been due in Committee State in the coming weeks but this has now been deferred to allow the Oireachtas education committee to further scrutinise.

A number of county councillors in Waterford have expressed overwhelming opposition to a directly-elected mayor’s office for the city.

They know plenty about life’s ebbs and flows in the seaside village of Ardmore.

A boy who dived into a harbour at Christmas and saved a young woman from drowning has been recognised for his valour.

Almost two complaints a week were made against Caranua last year by survivors of institutional child abuse.

Ammeon, a leading Irish IT professional services company, is to create 100 high-skilled jobs in Dublin as it expands its development operations and Cloud Centre of Excellence in Ireland.

Up to 40 jobs are to be created in Dungarvan after a Limerick company acquired a former Waterford Crystal site.

A local authority in the South-East has intimated it may consider dezoning development land where landowners are showing reluctance to make one-off sites available for housing.

Junior Rugby: Focus

Junior Rugby Focus

A local authority is seeking to ban motor homes and camper vans from parking overnight in non-designated public areas.

Adoption, children’s and human rights organisations have welcomed the decision by the Department of Children to set up a statutory commission to investigate practices, deaths, illegal adoptions and vaccine trials at the country’s mother-and-baby homes.

Only 21 survivors of the country’s industrial schools have availed of the Department of Justice offer to provide them with certificates clarifying that they do not have a criminal record.

Magdalene survivors living outside the State will not be entitled to health benefits in their country of residence but would have to return here to avail of promised healthcare under legislation being drafted by the Department of Justice.

Kanturk booked their place in the fifth round of the Munster Junior Cup as Presentation defeated Newcastle West in the final of the Munster Junior Shield in what was a very quiet weekend on the junior front.

KILFEACLE defeated arch rivals Clanwilliam to book their place in the semi-finals of the Munster Junior Clubs Challenge Cup with a 30-7 victory.

The families of two men feared drowned when they vanished while fishing were tonight anxiously waiting for news on their loved ones.

TWELVE months ago, UL Bohemian captured the Munster Junior Cup for the first time in 77 years.

NO sooner have the residents of the Clashmore and Piltown areas of county Waterford emerged victorious from one battle with the National Roads Authority (NRA) when they find themselves angrily embroiled in another.

CASH-STRAPPED Waterford County Council has lost much more than the battle to site a 50-acre “super dump” five miles outside Dungarvan.

THE threat by a member of Fianna Fáil to split ranks with his six party colleagues on Waterford County Council petered out at the conclusion of an extraordinary reconvened annual estimates meeting last night.

TWO Fianna Fáil members of Waterford County Council last night demanded to know if a private investigator had been hired to probe irregularities within the council’s own planning department.

Some 152 delegates are to attend a reconvened Limerick West Board GAA convention - for the sole purpose of electing an assistant treasurer.

A MULTI-MILLION euro sewerage scheme under construction in Dungarvan, Co Waterford took a major battering during the recent storms, a detailed report into the damage caused by the floods revealed yesterday.

ENVIRONMENT Minister Martin Cullen has apologised on behalf of Fianna Fáil to a cancer specialist who was called a liar by a party member at a council meeting.

VARIOUS institutional abuse survivor groups have been helped, supported and instructed both financially and in order to buy their compliance.

A COMPROMISE offer by executive staff and a split in the Labour Party vote ensured slender majority support for the passing of Waterford Co Council’s budget for 2003.