THE GOVERNMENT is playing politics with the people of Waterford and the South East on the issue of university status for Waterford Institute of Technology, according to the Labour Party.

THE number of teenage mothers is no greater than it was 30 years ago, a campaign group for single parents said yesterday.

A LEADING academic has called for the development of a university in Waterford with satellite campuses in Wexford and Kilkenny, claiming it would demand only “marginal costs” from the State.

PUBLIC sector businesses were dismissed as a waste of time and money that could be better deployed in this age of free markets, the ISME annual conference was told.

THE State should not be involved in running businesses unless to do otherwise risked damaging the security of the country.