PART I: I once gave my heart to a woman from Waterford but all that remains of that love, decades later, is a lingering grá for her homeplace, writes Joe McNamee.

ONE of the roles of the artist is to take the mundane and tease out surprising facets of our relationships to it.

The Waterford blaa is a bread product so unique that the European Comm-ission has shortlisted it for inclusion on its Database for Protected Designations.