A firm owned by Kerry county councillor Danny Healy-Rae and his wife, Eileen, was the highest paid plant hire and haulage contractor to Kerry County Council, last year.

An icecream seller has told a High Court judge that Waterford County Council cancelled his beach trading licence in order to placate a local seaside shopkeeper whose custom had been hit.

BUYERS will get a complete package with a modern mansion on 45 acres at Crobally, Old Parish, Dungarvan, Co Waterford.

Two peace activists were jailed today for their part in the savage bashing of a Portugese man in Co Waterford last year.