Five units of the fire brigade are dealing with a blaze at Belview Port in Waterford.

A number of investigations have been launched after the death of a man in an industrial accident at a wood processing plant near Waterford city yesterday afternoon.

The economy will get an annual €510m boost as Glanbia and its milk suppliers ramp-up investment and production by 2020 following the elimination of milk quotas in 2015.

Dairy and food ingredients group Glanbia has been granted planning permission for a €200m milk processing plant at Belview Port in south Kilkenny, which is expected to employ 400 people during construction and more than 100 full-time staff upon completion.

The first phase of a €23 million water scheme which will enable major industrial and residential expansion in the South-East will be officially opened later this week.

RELATIVES of the eight people who lost their lives in the Wexford freight container tragedy returned to the south-east yesterday be commemorate its 10th anniversary.

ALL the land used to grow sugar beet could be needed to produce grain for a proposed bioethanol plant at Belview Port, in south Co Kilkenny, on the River Suir.

FURIOUS fishermen were up in arms last night after the Port of Waterford finally locked a section of quay it sold to a private developer last year.

STUDENTS at Waterford Institute of Technology (WIT) say they will be left without training or playing grounds if Waterford Crystal’s plans to rezone almost 25 acres, which it leases to the college, are approved.

Two non-nationals were found in a container on a ferry arriving from France, it emerged today.

FISHERMEN who claim hundreds of jobs are being put on the line by moves by the Port of Waterford to sell off several docking areas have offered to pay €2m for the quays