A FORMER Co Waterford town councillor, who arrived in Ireland for a wedding over the weekend, was arrested and appeared in court yesterday on corruption charges.

A CENTURIES-OLD battle over the River Blackwater could be settled after an offer of peace talks from the millionaire British aristocrat who claims extensive rights over its fishing grounds.

THE family of an elderly widow who died of liver failure caused by a recently banned painkiller backed calls yesterday for improved reporting of the dangerous side-effects of drugs to the country’s medicines watchdog.

A BRITISH-based professor of social work has been appointed to determine if the Health Service Executive (HSE) failed in its duty of care to a teenager who died after inhaling aerosols.

WATERFORD deputy John Deasy last night defended his decision to air the case of tragic teenager Michelle Bray, who died after sniffing aerosol gas.