THE high price of building land has brought joy to our political and business elite without even a thought for the ordinary people who will eventually have to fund the cost of record land prices.

I WAS shocked by recent reports that the Government’s special savings scheme (SSIAs) is to cost taxpayers €3bn.

PROFESSOR Edward Walsh of the University of Limerick says the public sector should withdraw from activities which could be delivered more effectively by the private sector.

THERE has been controversy here in Waterford recently about the second river crossing.

US Government officials claim three Chicago hospitals exaggerated the seriousness of the conditions of some patients so they could get liver transplants sooner.

HAVING recently attended a fishermen’s protest in Dunmore East, I despair at the decline of an industry that could play a much bigger part in our economy.