Waterford City Council will spend €2.2m to buy 11 houses it was informed were worth considerably less than half that amount.

A company that has withdrawn a controversial planning application for a waste depot on the edge of Waterford City wants the public to email it with alternative site suggestions.

Residents, businesses, and a third-level college are among the objectors to plans for a waste facility on the edge of Waterford City.

The HSE South will write to Health Minister James Reilly over ongoing medical card application delays, after claims “you would be quicker getting through to the Pope” than the people running the service.

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

PUBLIC patients are still being “short-changed” when it comes to accessing cancer care in Waterford.

SERIAL objectors to planning applications in Waterford have been urged to look at the bigger picture as the city faces a downturn in construction.

A TRUST set up to help three children orphaned following a fire at their home at the start of the summer is about to close. Those who still intend to pledge money to the appeal are urged to do so as soon as possible.

WATERFORD is today officially launching its bid to get a multi-million euro festival back to the city in five years' time.

THOUSANDS of euro have been flooding in to an appeal set up to help three children who lost their parents and baby sister in an accidental fire at their Waterford city home.

‘Mam, Dad and Niamh were lovely people to us. We will never forget what happened Tuesday morning. We didn’t think it was going to happen like this. In every way, they protected us and loved us. All our love, from Cian, Brianna and Aaron.’

TEN-YEAR-OLD Cian O’Regan nestled close to his granny and granddad last night, and sat inches away from his parents’ coffins and a tiny white casket containing the remains of his 21-month-old sister.

WATERFORD is on the brink of a jobs and services bonanza as plans emerge for a new €100 million Government Quarter in the city centre.

WATERFORD is to lead the way later this month in promoting an EU-wide drive to make all of our buildings and our built environment more accessible to people with disabilities.

WATERFORD has been asked to submit a bid for the Tall Ships’ Races in 2011, a move which is being interpreted locally as a major indication the multi-million euro event could well be back to the south-east in five years.

WATERFORD City Council is to implement a roads programme that will see almost €32 million invested in the current year on the city’s road and transport infrastructure.

MORE than 120 manufacturing workers at one of Waterford’s longest-established manufacturing plants have been told they will be issued with protective notice on Monday unless they relocate to a new plant.

WATERFORD City Council has agreed an arts funding package that will see €173,000 shared by 29 organisations in the city.

IRATE parents who fear their children will lose teachers and be packed into larger classes have taken to the streets in protest.

THE findings of a national survey on entry to higher education should send a stark message to the Government as they consider the application from Waterford Institute of Technology for university designation, those in favour of the university application claim.

WATERFORD’S courts facilities are to receive a major revamp with plans to double the capacity of the existing courthouse complex in the city.

WATERFORD’S mayor and his deputy could be US-bound for St Patrick’s Day after all, despite earlier claims from city hall that nobody was venturing abroad this year.

GOLF and soccer lovers are queuing up to dig deep in aid of a very worthy appeal.

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

WATERFORD’S Mayor Cllr Hilary Quinlan has welcomed news that work on the N25 Waterford bypass will begin in April this year.

WATERFORD is fortunate to have one of the best Institutes of Technology in the country but it’s not enough, the city’s mayor claims.

THE Tall Ships’ Race has been and gone but the spirit and buzz which made the event so special is captured in images which have selected for a new calendar.

WATERFORD is spearheading a new wave in residential and community development in a new suburb of the city which is expected to be home to 12,000 more people.

WATERFORD City Council has partnered with Swimworld Ltd, a Galway-based water leisure company headed up by Joe Cosgrove, to deliver a major redevelopment project at Waterford Regional Sports Centre in Kilbarry.

JOURNEY times across Waterford city have been cut by up to a half hour with the opening of the long-awaited, €37m Outer Ring Road.

WATERFORD’S Mayor claims he has been “snubbed” by an organisation for which he and other have helped raise €40,000 over the years.

THE nine-year-old boy who drowned while on a day outing to Tramore on Saturday has been named locally as Darren Dunphy, of Larchfield, Waterford.

JOBLESS figures in Waterford and the south-east are continuing to rise amid growing fears that the closure of Waterford Crystal’s Dungarvan plant may spark a jobs crisis in the region.

WATERFORD’S search for new hurling talent takes a new and unprecedented route today as the prowess of some of the world’s greatest sailors is tested on the pitch.

AS FESTIVAL starts go, it doesn’t get much better, louder or more spectacular. Fog horns sounded, captain’s bells rang aloud and thousands of confetti-like blue and white shards of light plastic were catapulted into the air as Waterford marked a six-year wait for the official launch of the Tall Ships Race 2005.

THOUSANDS of revellers wandered along the pedestrianised quays in Waterford from early yesterday as the Tall Ships festival got underway.

PUBLIC representatives in Waterford have urged Health Minister Mary Harney to give them a say in local health matters, amid concern that proceeds from the sale of a multi-million euro landbank on hospital grounds will not be reinvested locally.