A judge described legal proceedings being brought by a small rural community against a local authority and An Bord Pleanála as “very complex and important for all concerned’’.

Residents say they are worried privately-owned homes will plunge in value after a local authority acquired almost a third of vacant homes for social housing.

MANAGEMENT at Waterford Regional Hospital (WRH) say they are very open to a public private partnership (PPP) deal at the hospital which would see long-awaited radiotherapy facilities developed there.

UNIVERSITY of Limerick, last season’s team of the season, will launch a defence of their ESB women’s Superleague title tomorrow night with a home game against Scruffy’s St Paul’s.

WILMOUNT Terrace in Cobh has a crow’s nest perch above Cork harbour - and that’s perhaps part of the reason why the daughter of a long-serving Cork harbour pilot lived at this address for many years.