The next school year is likely to see the finalisation of the amalgamation of colleges and vocational schools GAA competitions at post-primary level.

Dr Harty Cup final

A DECLINE in traffic on the roads has become very noticeable since the recession began — a trend that’s likely to continue due to the increasing price of petrol and diesel.

A young Waterford man who died in Co Cork after possibly taking a deadly drug was laid to rest yesterday.

Two communities in west Waterford were yesterday trying to deal with the shock of the double tragedy in Kinsale.

The Government wants to encourage the development of an expanded campus by an American university which has opened an international centre in Co Waterford, Finance Minister Michael Noonan said.

A JAPANESE chat-up line proved a winner for a teenager who began teaching himself the language three years ago to talk to a girl in his class.

BLACKWATER Community School, Lismore, defeated Clonmel opposition at the Clonmel Park Hotel last evening, winning impressively with a score of 104.

AT St Declan’s Community College, Kilmacthomas, Co Waterford, last evening the host team put in a sterling performance in scoring 104 points to defeat Waterpark College and CBS Tramore.

Waterford’s Seamus Power got the spring collegiate season off to a flying start on Tuesday with a tied second-place finish at the PING Arizona Intercollegiate tournament in Tucson.

MARK CHRISTIE, one of the country’s most exciting athletes, is all set to bring down the curtain on his junior career with a stylish performance at the European Cross-country Championships in Heringsdorf, Germany, on Sunday.

THIS time round, the world’s most famous passenger liner, the ill-fated Titanic, claimed no victims.

SPANISH student Maria Arroyo gave the higher level paper an emphatic thumbs up when she left the exam hall at St Augustine’s College in Dungarvan yesterday evening.