The landslide victory of Jeremy Corbyn in the Labour leadership election looks set to transform the political discourse in our large neighbour island. There is an otherworldly quality to the north London MP, who first served as a councillor way back in 1974, before being elected as MP for Islington North in 1982.

Ireland’s oldest city is to get a €10m facelift to make it more “people-centred” and to create world-class public spaces at its heart.

Award-winning war correspondent and author Robert Fisk and explorer Jonathan Shackleton are among the highlights of the Immrama Festival of Travel Writing which takes place in Lismore in June.

A local authority has launched four economic incentive schemes to attract new businesses and revitalise vacant premises throughout the city and county of Waterford.

A Waterford local authority wants the laws on data protection eased so that councillors can fully represent people making housing inquiries.

One of the last major infrastructural projects to be unveiled in Ireland in recent years is to be named after the patriot who first raised the green, white and orange tricolour which became our national flag.

Waterford is a safe and welcoming city. It has the lowest rate of recorded crime of any comparably-sized urban centre in the country and does not have a particularly widespread problem of street crime and anti-social behaviour as some commentary around the recent night-time assemblies has suggested.

Leading politicians, local authority chiefs, and a Garda chief superintendent have defended Waterford’s reputation in the light of the recent harassment of residents in the city.

Waterford’s political leaders, local authority chief and most senior Garda have combined in response to recent anti-Roma protests in the city.

Bad hair days in West Waterford are being blamed on a town’s water supplies.

The Department of Education is to pay an "above the market value" €470,000 for a former Christian Brothers monastery in west Waterford.

It is official, then. Janet Yellen is to become the first female ‘chairman’ of the US central bank next February and as such, she will be in a position to affect all our lives.

JANET YELLEN, President Barack Obama’s pick to lead the Federal Reserve, combines a solid reputation as an economist with a keen interest in communication — fitting for someone who once joked that her dinner guests should expect a discussion of economics.

Delegates at last night’s Waterford annual convention at Lawlor’s Hotel in Dungarvan aired their views in a frank and lively discussion on the state of county’s finances.

It took Waterford County Board delegates less than 10 minutes last night to formally ratify two former hurling greats as county senior selectors to replace Nicky Cashin and Br Philip Ryan whose unexpected resignations within the past week sent shock waves through the county.

Italian Prime Minister Mario Monti on has thrown his support behind a new tax on financial transactions, backing a push by Germany and France, but he wants it to include the UK.

WATERFORD GAA secretary Timmy O’Keeffe has made a resolute defence of his highly controversial suggestion that the Déise should opt for Kilkenny’s Nowlan Park as the county’s Munster senior hurling championship venue in any future “home and away’’ arrangement they might enter into.

Davy Fitzgerald's spell as Waterford senior hurling manager has been extended into a fourth championship season following last night’s specially convened meeting of the County Board.

DAVY FITZGERALD’S spell as Waterford senior hurling manager has been extended into a fourth championship season following last night’s specially convened meeting of the County Board.

FOR years the Kilkenny-Tipperary rivalry lay idle, softened by the few intermittent meetings that the passing summers deemed fit to bestow, but the Fenians club experienced its resurrection first-hand this time last year.

A ROW has broken out in west Waterford following a county council decision to controversially rezone a 200-acre site — reportedly linked to a Garda investigation.

IT’S BEEN a bit of a journey to the corner for Eoin Murphy. The way he puts it, when he started hurling for Waterford he didn’t know what he was: a forward, a midfielder or a half-back.

OBLIVIOUS, seemingly, to the torrent of criticism that has preceded the hugely controversial and costly trip, an eight-member Waterford County Council delegation flew from Shannon yesterday morning en route to New York for the St Patrick's Day celebrations in the Big Apple.

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.

TWO councillors have defended a controversial decision by their cash-strapped local authority to spend thousands of euro on sending and eight-member delegation to New York for St Patrick’s Day.

IT’S been a long time coming, but finally there’s €300,000 worth of New Year cheer for the people of Tallow in west Waterford.

Faced with the most serious waste management crisis in its 116 year history, and a dire financial situation, there was no surprise that, at the end of a marathon annual estimates meeting yesterday, the twenty three elected members of Waterford County Council failed to adopt a county rate for 2006.

CLARE County Board are to unveil a new sponsorship deal worth an estimated €1 million.

A DECISION is expected to be made shortly to amalgamate two district courts in Waterford despite widespread opposition to the plans.

A MULTI-MILLION euro sewerage scheme under construction in Dungarvan, Co Waterford took a major battering during the recent storms, a detailed report into the damage caused by the floods revealed yesterday.

PARENTS fear their children could be killed from poison that is being deliberately laid on a green area in a busy housing estate.

A new €1.5m state-of-the-art broadband fibre optic network in Dungarvan has been launched by Minister for Communications, Dermot Ahern.