INVESTOR demand for quality buys outside the main two or three Irish cities is about to be sampled — with the offer of a fine AIB bank branch in Waterford City, with an excellent covenant.

A recent street arts festival in Waterford brought in an economic boost of over €3m to the city, according to Fáilte Ireland.

DUNLOP National Rally champion, Tim McNulty will receive the Vard Memorial Trophy at the National Rally Championship awards ceremony at the Clayton Hotel, Galway tomorrow night.

WATERFORD was overrun by pirates of all ages yesterday morning but trainee sailors regained control of the city’s streets in the afternoon as a crew parade resulted in large splashes of colour in the Tall Ships Races 2011 festival.

QUEUES are expected this Saturday in Waterford’s city centre for the release of more tickets for free concerts taking place during the Tall Ships festival.

MUSIC fans have snapped up over 3,000 free tickets for a concert by Bryan Ferry due to take place during the forthcoming Tall Ships festival in Waterford.

FREE tickets for the headline music acts for the Tall Ships festival in Waterford are to be made available later this month.

HUNDREDS of secondary school students, teachers and parents took to the streets of Waterford to protest against the Government’s education cuts.

A FESTIVE atmosphere, jersey-bedecked fans cheering and singing, white and blue as far as the eye could see: Waterford’s city centre was truly a heaving mass of joy and celebration yesterday afternoon. Then the match started.

THE artist behind a controversial series of installations in Waterford has put an act of vandalism against one of his pieces down to “porter rather than principle”.

THE Irish palate and food industry have been revolutionised in recent years, President Mary McAleese told the Terre Madre gastronomic festival in Waterford.

LARGE-scale art installations dotted around Waterford’s city centre depicting war images are causing controversy because of their graphic content.

LARGE-scale art installations dotted around Waterford’s city centre depicting war images are causing controversy because of their graphic content.

IRELAND’S largest Slow Food festival got under way last night and is set to welcome celebrity chefs, politicians, food experts and thousands of visitors to the south-east in the coming days.

Festival puts wind in Waterford’s sails, writes South-East Correspondent Neans McSweeney.

CHILDREN’S festival organisers in Waterford will be finding out who’s nautical and who’s nice over the coming days as the fifth annual Hullabaloo Festival kicks into action.

Thousands of Union members are involved in a day of protest in towns and cities across the country at the level of statutory redundancy payments.