A Waterford community is being split in two by plans for a proposed windfarm. Michael Clifford looks at the issues involved and the rifts they have caused

As a new greenway opens in the southeast Dan MacCarthy hops on his bike and takes in the splendours of the Déise country

A “selfless” senior garda asked friends and colleagues to support two charities instead of organising a dinner to honour his retirement.

Four days of drama, music, sea activities, and more are on the agenda this month in one of the country’s most rugged regions.

The owners of this unmistakably Scandinavian-styled log house near Kill village in Waterford ordered their home from a catalogue found in a doctor’s surgery.

Waterford SHC

Baywatch made it look sexy but in reality, the role of a lifeguard is far more pedestrian, if no less essential: In between saving 413 swimmers last month, lifeguards reunited 353 lost children with parents.

The development of a €2.5m “underground experience” in old mine shafts dotting the cliffs along the Waterford coast is the next goal of the people behind the Copper Coast Geopark following the opening of their visitor centre at the weekend.

Photographer George Munday hopes to realise his dream by crowd-funding, where supporters pledge funds in advance.

Sixteen of the country’s best-known bathing spots have lost their coveted blue flag status this year after the introduction of more stringent standards for testing water quality by the EU.

Seven Cork beaches closed after a swimming ban was imposed last week due to excessive levels of E.coli will find out this evening if tests will clear them to reopen.

The contrast couldnot have been more pronounced: The azure seas glistening off West Waterford and the brown gunge lapping the East Cork coast.

The body of the last crewman from the stricken trawler the Tit Bonhomme has been removed from the sea and brought to Cork University Hospital.

PRAYERS were offered yesterday morning in An Rinn in Co Waterford for skipper Michael Hayes — who lived in the picturesque seaside village — and the rest of the crew.

GARDAÍ have ruled out foul play in their investigation into the discovery of a man’s body at a waste sorting site near Listowel in Co Kerry on Friday.

Gardaí have ruled out foul play following the discovery of a man's body in a wheelie bin in Co Kerry.

Donal Hickey on Ireland’s rich ‘geopark’ potential.

FIVE buses a day have been arranged from Kinsale to Dunmore over the weekend for those who will join the search for the bodies of the two fishermen missing from the Honeydew II.

BAD weather conditions forced the suspension of the sea search for the doomed Honeydew II trawler off the south east coast yesterday.

ALL OF WATERFORD’S beaches will have blue flag status within the next few years, local councillors have vowed.

THE final bill from the storms that lashed the country over the last two days could run into tens of millions of euros.

Rescuers have recovered the bodies of the two 24-year-old men who have been missing off the coast of Co Waterford for almost two days.

AN auction guide price of €750,000 has been floated for the period Co Waterford property, Lahardan House, near Kilmeaden.