BACK for sale by private treaty, in a good Waterford city location and including land and buildings, with a €3 million price guide, is the former St Joseph’s House, used for a number of years by the Little Sisters of the Poor as a nursing home.

The independent health watchdog Hiqa has criticised a nursing home in Co Louth for failing in its legal duty to report allegations of staff misconduct.

THERE was a time when it was trendy for parents to wish for a son to be a priest. But now it seems ambitious parents want their son to become a doctor, which is seen as both a prestigious and a lucrative position.

WORK has got under way on a €20 million convent and care home for a congregation of nuns who have been based in Waterford city for generations.

ONE of Waterford’s most respected charities is committing itself to caring for future generations of elderly people in the region by developing “unrivalled” facilities on a new site.