Two Irish climbers who plunged to their deaths in a fall on an Alpine mountain had reached the summit and were descending when the accident happened.

Greenshine are Noel Shine, Mary Greene and their 17-year-old daughter, Ellie. It’s also the title of their newly released album, a delightful collection of 14 folk and country tinged songs, book-ended by a classic Beatles track and an Irish traditional celebration of ‘May Day’.

BACHELOR Affair made all under Tommy Treacy to record a popular local success in the featured Jack Duggan Memorial Handicap Hurdle at Gowran Park yesterday.

ANOTHER page in the remarkable history of the Mullins racing dynasty was written at Clonmel last night when Bachelor Affair provided Gerard Mullins with his first training success.

WELLINGTON boots, fish boxes, mineral bottles, a lantern, ropes, part of a hand-painted nameplate — just some of the debris which has been found by the dozens of volunteers who have been searching the south-eastern coastline for nearly a week, and which is presumed to have come from the stricken Kinsale-based trawler, the Honeydew II.

WATERFORD boasts massive, unexploited potential as a major hub for the financial services industry, a key economist has claimed.

WATERFORD’S appeal as a hub of industry and commerce as well as a great place to live and work is to be promoted at a conference next month which is the brainchild of the local county council.

WATERFORD County Council is going green and its about to become the envy of its sister authorities nationwide as it significantly cuts its costs.

WATERFORD County Council is going green and it’s about to become the envy of its sister authorities nationwide as it significantly cuts its costs.

WATERFORD County Council has a new mayor. Cllr Mary Greene is the fourth representative from the Suir Electoral Area to wear the civic chain and lead the local authority.

IF, as predicted, Fianna Fáil loses two seats in Waterford, the finger of blame will be pointed at Health Minister Micheál Martin.

A PROPOSAL by mobile phone company, O2 to erect a mobile phone mast on Coillte-owned land on the Comeragh Mountains in County Waterford, has united the local community in its opposition to it.

A COMPROMISE offer by executive staff and a split in the Labour Party vote ensured slender majority support for the passing of Waterford Co Council’s budget for 2003.