A €500,000 National Lifeguard Training Centre will be officially opened today in the seaside resort of Tramore, following a unique collaboration between agencies.

Gardaí have charged 16 people with various counts of deception and making false reports in relation to orchestrated traffic accidents.

A 23-year-old man has been charged in connection with an arson attack on a house in Waterford city, which has left two children with severe burns.

The grandmother of the three children who were injured in the horrific petrol bomb attack has today spoken of the events that took place last night.

An 11-year-old girl is today recovering after heroically saving the life of her infant cousin during what is believed to have been a petrol-bomb attack on their grandmother's Waterford home around 9.20pm yesterday.

Investigators from GSOC are examining the scene where an 18-year-old man lost his life in Co Waterford, following an earlier assault of an off-duty senior Garda.

Its the city best known for its Blaa, but archaeologists in Waterford are saying “yabadabadoo” today after the fossilised remains of a new type of dinosaur believed to date back 62 million years were discovered there over the weekend.

Liam O’Sullivan was an impressive winner over John O’Rourke in the Munster junior A semi-final on the Bantry road at Togher Cross.

Charlie Wilkins has a spring in his step as he looks forward to exploring some of the best gardens in the country

IT hosted the first race meeting of the new millennium in Europe and later helped punters get used to the euro. Now one of Ireland’s oldest racecourses is to embark on a 12-month celebration to mark its centenary in 2012, but whether the euro is still in circulation is not as certain.

YESTERDAY marked the 30th anniversary of the first air services to and from the south-east of Ireland, when the new IR£1.5 million Waterford Airport was granted an operational licence.

READING the analysis column by the editor of the Irish Catholic Michael Kelly (Irish Examiner, August 14), I feel there are two fundamental errors in his thinking.

IN his letter (April 12), Patrick Browne makes a good case for retaining summertime all year round.

THANKS to whatever divinity we believe in, we are at last out of the gloom of GMT.

IN a few short weeks we are again to be plunged onto gloom.

I WAS disgusted to see your front page headline ‘Credit unions to pay double banks’ fee for guarantee’ (May 5).

LIKE most people, I have been very angry and upset about the HSE’s attempts to centralise A&E services.

FROM recent reports it seems some group with the collective intelligence of a somewhat dim-witted hen wants to replace the doors at the west end of the Honan Chapel in UCC with glass double-glazed ones.

ENVIRONMENT Minister John Gormley’s initiative on car taxes is to be welcomed as an effort to reward the good and punish the wicked. There is, however, a potential injustice involved.

STEVEN KING, writing about Kosovo (February 20), points out the way to set up a state: “First grab a piece of territory.

IT SEEMS I have displeased Peadar Gill (Letters, December 7) by suggesting that gas-guzzling cars should not be allowed to people who don’t need them as an alternative to taxing them heavily.

PATRICK BROWNE (Letters, December 5) says he can see a place for people-carriers for larger families and he would advocate SUVs for those who really need them.

IT SEEMS I owe Sean F O’Leary (Letters, November 23) an apology.

IN his letter (November 20), Patrick Browne asks if I was joking when I said “gas-guzzling SUVs should not carry extra taxes”?

PLEASE tell me Sean O’Leary (Letters, November 15) was joking when he said gas-guzzling SUVs should not carry extra taxes.

IT’S great to know I’m not alone in complaining about our variable speed limits chaos.

SEVERAL years ago Cork City Hall began to scream, as did every other local authority, that far too much material was going to landfill.

IF ever proof were needed that the lunatics are running the Irish asylum, consider this:

I HAVE come to wonder if the ‘authorities’ here are half-witted. We have had a number of patently stupid and unnecessary decisions made on our behalf of late.

I WOULD like to take issue with Patrick Browne (Irish Examiner letters, June 3) when he asserts that incineration is the only “sensible alternative” to the so-called waste management problem.

IN RESPONSE to Patrick Browne’s pro-incinerator letter (Irish Examiner, June 3), I agree we must recycle as much as possible — but where?