Sinn Féin were the big winners in Waterford, claiming six seats on the amalgamated Waterford City and County Council, while Labour were the major casualties, with four high-profile sitting councillors losing out.

Butcher’s body was found floating off Co Down coast, says David Young

WHEN Talk Talk suddenly announced last year that it was closing in Waterford with the loss of 575 jobs, Minister for Jobs and Enterprise Richard Bruton said creating jobs in the beleaguered South-East was going to a priority.

The proposed establishment of a technological university by three colleges in Cork, Kerry and Limerick has drawn mixed reactions.

A group of Wexford women will pick up a cheque for €250,000 today after they scooped the Lotto jackpot on New Year's Eve.

AFTER a roller coaster of a day which saw them race from council meeting to council meeting, Senator David Norris and Dana Rosemary Scallon eventually obtained four council nominations each to ensure their place in the race to the Áras.

TRIBUTES were yesterday paid to a renowned musician in Waterford who died in a road accident early on Bank Holiday Monday.

CIVIC and business leaders in the south-east have called for “fair pricing” during Waterford’s hosting of the Tall Ships this summer.

A MEMBER of one of America’s most famous political dynasties may be set to follow in his father’s footsteps by paying a visit to his ancestral home in Waterford.

WATERFORD Museum of Treasures has secured a major bequest including letters from descendents of architect John Roberts’s family.

ONE of Waterford’s best-loved theatrical personalities, comedian, scriptwriter, singer and composer Denny Corcoran was yesterday named as the Waterford Person of the Year for 2010.

FRENCH pharmaceutical company Sanofi-Aventis is to acquire US biotechnology firm, Genzyme, in a €20.1 billion deal which is unlikely to adversely affect the latter’s significant Irish presence.

THE host city for this year’s Tall Ships Races has issued a global invitation to the event by sending out 150,000 postcards to be posted around the world.

WATERFORD’S city manager yesterday told an urban regeneration conference that the “onus and responsibility” for growth opportunities “falls on ourselves”.

A MAJOR conference on urban regeneration this week in Waterford will hear about the importance of vibrant city centres to economic recovery.

MAYOR of Waterford Cllr Mary Roche has invited foodies, music lovers and the public in general to a picnic this weekend, as part of the city’s Harvest Festival.

THE Tall Ships are coming again – and the spectacular event due to be staged in 2011 received a major boost last night with the announcement of €450,000 in sponsorship funding.

WATERFORD City Council is considering a planning application for a major factory outlet centre that could create up to 500 jobs at a former pitch and putt course on the Cork Road in the city.

A SUPREME Court ruling that frozen embryos do not have an automatic right to life will not lead to wholesale destruction of stored embryos, according to the fertility clinic at the centre of the ruling.

THE GOVERNMENT is under mounting pressure to finally enact legislation on assisted human reproduction after a landmark Supreme Court ruling relating to frozen embryos stated life for the “unborn” only begins when a foetus or a fertilised egg is implanted in the womb.

THE word “unborn” refers to a child within the womb, not pre-implantation embryos, and state protection of embryos arises only after implantation, the Supreme Court has found.

The Pro Life campaign has said legislation to protect human embryos is "urgently required".

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

HUNDREDS of secondary school students, teachers and parents took to the streets of Waterford to protest against the Government’s education cuts.

The woman who two years ago lost a High Court action aimed at having three embryos implanted in her uterus with a view to becoming pregnant against the wishes of her estranged husband has asked the Supreme Court to hear her appeal as soon as possible.

THE mother-of-two who lost a High Court battle with her estranged husband over the rights to their frozen embryos is to ask the Supreme Court to grant an early hearing of her appeal.

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THE failure of successive governments to write law regulating assisted reproduction left the human embryos at the heart of a major legal battle in a “very precarious existence”, a High Court judge has ruled.

NO SINGLE body is promoting fire safety or running educational programmes, despite up to 100 deaths in fires in the last two years in Ireland, a former activist in fire safety claims.

RESIDENTS in a part of Waterford city rezoned for commercial development have reacted angrily to the move.

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.

A DARK walkway on the edge of Waterford city which was the scene of an alleged rape last month cannot be closed off, despite residents’ pleas, Waterford City Council says.

NO SINGLE body is promoting fire safety educational programmes and media campaigns now the National Safety Council is being subsumed into a new body, a leading safety campaigner said yesterday.

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

AS a parent and a primary teacher with years experience, currently studying for a doctorate in education, I am dismayed that standardised testing is back on the agenda.

FIANNA FÁIL is coming under intense pressure in Waterford to provide radiotherapy at the local Regional Hospital.

A WATERFORD city councillor who was censored by his colleagues when he leaked a traveller accommodation plan has now been encouraged by a party colleague to resign.

PROPERTY developers in Waterford are to be given a chance to invest in protected structures in the city and transform them, where suitable and appropriate, into thriving commercial hubs.

MOST Limerick rape trials fail to secure convictions due to the alarming amount of alcohol consumed by those involved, a leading lawyer claimed yesterday.

Niamh Nolan

Waterford City Council echoed the public concern generally felt about the inconsistency of sentences handed down by the courts for rape and sexual assault.

NOT since Thamus’ judgement that the invention of writing would be a burden on society has progress in education been so thwarted.

A NUMBER of local politicians running in the imminent elections are unhappy with a request that posters not be erected in Waterford city along the route which will be taken by EU Environment Ministers this weekend.