WATERFORD must focus its efforts on luring some of the world’s leading financial services employers to the region. If they do, others will follow quickly, a leading economist said yesterday.

WATERFORD’S appeal as a hub of industry and commerce as well as a great place to live and work is to be promoted at a conference next month which is the brainchild of the local county council.

Tipperary manager Babs Keating has chopped and changed his side for next Sunday's NHL Division 1B game with Laois.