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

TIMING is everything, they say, and for West Waterford and the Dungarvan/Clonea area, lots of planets are aligning and crossing paths to give it a deserved place in the sun.

Broad in the beam might describe the way the accommodation is laid out at Comeragh, aka No 10 Laburnum Park, by the secondary entrance to the CUH hospital campus, off the Model Farm Road. 

Pilot scheme aims to highlight heritage potential of lesser-known villages and boost visitor numbers

Waterford Council has refused planning permission for a windfarm near the Comeragh Mountains for the second time in four years.

The Comeragh mountain range in Co Waterford is an area of spectacular natural beauty, a relatively undiscovered gem that is home to stunning glacial lakes, picturesque waterfalls and hidden caverns.

OUR trailhead is Howe Strand, where a few cars can park but space is limited. The beach looks out onto Courtmacsherry Bay and beyond it, the open ocean. Westward are the Seven Heads, and to the east, the Old Head of Kinsale.

A fresh row has hit the new Cabinet with the revelation that state jobs were handed out to Coalition cronies — just days before they switched posts.

SERIOUS flooding in recent times is prompting people to look at new ways of resolving, long-term, a problem that’s likely to remain with us, given climate change and all that implies.

WHEN you’re reared in an area, you take it for granted. It’s something that’s a given.

The Government said a new network of pylons must comply with health and safety standards amid concerns over “monster” structures which are set to be erected in the middle of communities.

Power cables must be buried at the side of our road network, especially by the side of dual carriageways which could be the cheapest way to do it when devaluation of property is taken into account.

More than 1,500 people walked through the cold and rain at the weekend to protest against a proposed Eirgrid network of pylons designated for the area around the Comeragh Mountains.

I am aghast at the notion that Eirgrid would even consider the route through scenic Lismore, Co Waterford as an option to upgrade the electricity grid for Ireland.

Location: Clonmel

We view a selection of trading up homes from around the country.

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

Changes to the Waterford constituency will be of concern to TDs in Tipperary and Waterford City, writes Conor Kane

MORE than 2,500 people from the south-east revelled in this year’s Bealtaine Festival of Outdoor Science, a week-long event which saw them embrace the great outdoors.

PLAYING in a Munster final would have been easier than the ordeal hurling fans Michael Beehan and Podge O’Brien went though to raise funds for Bóthar, to send more livestock to needy families.

IT may be a long way from a maiden in Cork to a Classic, but Dermot Weld's Nightime bridged the gap in emphatic style in the Boylesports Irish 1000 Guineas at the Curragh yesterday.

THERE’S a whole heap of property, and then there’s the stunning natural setting too, on offer at the Cooldevane, Clogheen, Co Tipperary home.

Gardaí discovered four guns, a makeshift firing range and targets when they raided a suspected Continuity IRA training camp at a clearing in the Comeragh mountains, the Special Criminal Court heard today.

A hillwalker is recovering in hospital, after falling from a cliff at Mahon Falls in Co Waterford.

A Limerick man was charged at the Special Criminal Court in Dublin today in connection with a garda swoop on a suspected Continuity IRA training camp in Co Waterford in August last year.

Rescuers have reached an injured hill-walker stranded in the Comeragh mountains of Co Waterford.

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.

IT’S rare for an Irish sportsperson or team to set a new world record.

A MOTORWAY plan linking the country’s two biggest cities could face lengthy delays, a judge has warned.