THE owner and managing director of a hugely successful Dungarvan company is promising up to 240 new jobs if Waterford County Council agrees to rezone his lands on the outskirts of the town.

A LABOUR member of Dungarvan Town Council, who is set to become mayor next month, has claimed that when darkness falls all hell breaks loose on some of the housing estates.

THE substantial amounts the cash-strapped Dungarvan Town Council has been paying in consultancy fees has led some councillors to voice concern.

DUNGARVAN’S most historic central landmark, Grattan Square, is set for a €3 million revamp.

ONLY 50% of the Waterford County Council’s 11,000 customers have paid the controversial new annual flat charge of €150 for refuse collection ahead of tomorrow’s deadline.

DUNGARVAN Town Council has prepared a draft anti-social behaviour policy document that will go on display for submissions from members of the public.

THE fallout from the closure of the Waterford Crystal plant in Dungarvan with the loss of almost 400 jobs continues.

SCARCELY a wet week in his newly created senior post with Waterford County Council, Brian Rafferty has run slap bang into controversy with some of the elected councillors.

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.

AS union leaders prepare to meet senior management at the troubled Waterford Crystal plant this morning, local councillors have been voicing their dissatisfaction with the way the 480 job cuts were announced last week.

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A CONTROVERSIAL proposal to build a two-way road through the centre of a senior citizens housing estate in Dungarvan, Co Waterford, has run into major opposition.

ENVIRONMENT Minister Martin Cullen is being asked to provide grant aid for a dry recycling facility in his Waterford constituency.

A €440 million shopping and residential development which will provide at least 350 new jobs is to go ahead in Co Waterford, after objectors failed in attempts to have An Bord Pleanála block the project.