VETERAN goalkeeper Eddie Hickey emerged as the penalty shoot-out hero for Fairview Rangers as the Limerick outfit captured the Umbro FAI Junior Cup for a record eighth time yesterday.

WATERFORD City Council’s three electoral areas have been altered slightly, and renamed, for these elections.

A MAN died after his car struck a tree near the entrance to Waterford Golf Club on Monday evening.

THE ongoing controversy about the decision of Aer Lingus to withdraw from Shannon airport throws a very clear light on the nature of Irish capitalism, the fallacy that is government planning and the true meaning of privatisation.

EXACTLY 50 years after his late grandfather, Tom Gallagher, wore the mayoral chain in Waterford city, Independent councillor Laurence (Cha) O’Neill has become the new mayor.

THE GAA should ignore any potential extension of Waterford into Kilkenny in an effort to quell deep-rooted hurling rivalries, Waterford city councillors have urged.

HOUSEHOLDERS in Waterford are being issued with a four-page fact sheet telling them how they can fight back against thugs.

CITY councillors in Waterford claimed over €250,000 in expenses for the first seven months of last year, figures show.

A TURF war has broken out between local authorities in Waterford and Kilkenny over plans to extend the Deise boundary.

OVER the last 12 or so years in senior club hurling, there hasn’t been a more impressive performer inside its own county than Toomevara.

CITY councillors in Waterford will discuss the potential significance of a Viking settlement find along the planned route of the €300 million Waterford city by-pass at a committee meeting of the local authority next week.

All the drama came in the five minutes of time added on at the end of the game as both sides finished with 10 men in a dramatic south-east derby at Buckley Park.