An 11-year-old girl is recovering in a hospital burns unit after undergoing surgery to treat injuries she received while trying to protect her baby cousin from a firebomb attack.

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.

A one-year-old baby, her 11-year-old sister and third person are in hospital tonight after suffering injuries following a petrol bomb attack in Waterford.

Gardaí investigating a major illegal money-lending ring — involving members of an extended family who have bought up to 10 houses for cash despite being on social welfare — arrested six people yesterday morning.

A man has been remanded in custody at Waterford District Court charged with aggravated burglary in relation to an incident in which a house was broken into by a suspect carrying a machete sword.

The letter in your paper last week (Jan 17), which makes the case for introducing a 4.5-day week to overcome what seems to be ever increasing unemployment, was like a breath of fresh air, after all the doom and gloom we are always hearing.

ARMED gardaí have been patrolling a housing estate in Waterford city following the escalation of a feud that led to the stabbing of a man on Monday.

A man in his 20s has been stabbed in an attack at a house in Waterford city.

A 48 year-old Waterford man tried to kill his mentally ill wife by hitting her with a hammer because she would not stop talking, the Central Criminal Court heard today.

A psychiatric expert has told the Central Criminal Court that a man who assaulted his wife poses an “extremely low risk” of re-offending, if he is not jailed.

GARDAÍ have worked more than 12,000 hours of overtime in the past two months to deal with a violent feud in Waterford city.

A man has been remanded in custody charged in connection with the shooting of a teenage girl in Waterford last week.

A 27-year-old man has been remanded in custody in connection with the shooting of a teenage girl in Waterford earlier this week.

THE mother of a teenage girl who had a lucky escape when she was shot in a hail of pellets in Waterford described her attackers as “cowardly people.”

A YOUNG woman was being questioned following the stabbing of two teenage girls in Waterford city.

There have been "no cases" of people being intimidated with baseball bats in Waterford city since the arrest of two local men accused of INLA membership, the Special Criminal Court heard today.

Two Waterford men accused of INLA membership were "involved in making explosive devices under the instructions of others", the Special Criminal Court heard today.

A Waterford man said during garda interviews that he joined the INLA to "protect himself" from anti-social behaviour, the Special Criminal Court heard today.

Two Co Waterford men were charged with INLA membership at a special sitting of the Special Criminal Court in Dublin today.

WATERFORD City Council has promised to get tough on vandals who are burning out boarded up houses in the city.

A Waterford man who attended a house party at which a teenager was fatally stabbed in a brawl recalled at the Central Criminal Court today people present watching and cheering the fight.

A Waterford man who stabbed another man to death with a kitchen knife after intervening in a row over a CD has been found guilty of murder at the Central Criminal Court.

A man appeared in court tonight charged with the murder of a Co Waterford horse breeder.

A post-mortem is due to be carried out today on the body of an 18-year-old man who died after a stabbing in Waterford over the weekend.

CONSTRUCTION of a €132,000 children’s playground on a local authority housing estate in Waterford city has been halted over residents fears it would become a magnate for anti-social behaviour.

Eight men arrested when gardaí swooped on a suspected Continuity IRA training camp in Co Waterford last August were further charged with new offences when they appeared at the Special Criminal Court today.