There will be an Open Garden and a garden Party at John and Helen Fox’s house at Underwood, Rochestown, on Saturday May 28 to raise funds for Douglas Community Association.

Peter Dowdall first visited Mount Congreve in Co Waterford at age 10, and in an early spring return, he finds he is still lost for words to describe the intense beauty of a world class garden

With what seems like as many seats within and without as a newly reconfigured Dáil might have, this four-bed bungalow with views over Waterford’s Knockaderry Lake and the countryside around Kilmeaden is described as well laid out, with “accommodation of the highest standard and the decor tasteful and cheerful.”

Coláiste Stiofáin Naofa (CSN) will hold it’s Annual Plant Sale on Tuesday and Wednesday May 12,13. 

Dermot Dooley has never really allowed himself to consider the thought, but under different circumstances he would be on the sideline in Nowlan Park this evening.

Shay Barry, who ended a long and successful riding career last year, registered his first training success when Cracked Rear View landed the bumper in Sligo last night, the www.coimtysligoraces.com Pro-Am Flat Race.

Details of a €10m investment package to develop greenways and cycling routes across the country has been announced.

Sq m: 214 (2,300 sq ft)

A Dutch man was due to be brought before a special sitting of Waterford district court last night in relation to the death of a 45-year-old teacher in a head-on collision.

Would-be train drivers: Roll up, roll up to the Waterford & Suir Valley Railway for a chance to fulfil a childhood ambition.

Make your marcade in Dublin

A Waterford man accused of IRA membership and having three improvised mortar launch tubes at his home in 2011 has walked free from court after the collapse of his trial.

The trial of a Co Waterford man accused of having three improvised mortar launch tubes at his home in 2011 has been adjourned until tomorrow.

Champion jockey Davy Russell came to the rescue on Thursday when a horse transporter belonging to trainer Jimmy Mangan was targeted by diesel fuel thieves.

Gardaí have issued specific flood warnings for several areas of Dublin today.

A Regency Carlton House desk at €82,000 was the top lot at Mt Congreve yesterday.

It’s been labelled the sale of the century and judging by the level of interest, tomorrow’s auction won’t disappoint.

All roads lead to Mount Congreve this weekend.

THE sale of 120 lots of furniture, paintings, silver and porcelain from Mount Congreve, Kilmeaden, Co Waterford is expected to bring in around £2.5m at Christie’s in London next May 23.

Arecent column on alternative means of treating waste has attracted a deal of reaction, which is not surprising given the ongoing outcry about charges for septic tanks.

Some of the country’s most historic houses and gardens will throw open their gates to the public as part of a new garden festival taking place next month.

Two Co Waterford men arrested during garda investigations into dissident terrorist activity were charged with IRA membership at the Special Criminal Court in Dublin today.

TRIBUTES were yesterday paid to a renowned musician in Waterford who died in a road accident early on Bank Holiday Monday.

GARDAÍ hope to bring charges of dangerous driving causing death against a youth who fatally injured a 21-year-old pedestrian he knew in a joyriding crash last Friday.

A man has been killed in a car crash in Co Waterford.

OWNERS of a house who didn’t know they were in a radon zone were being exposed to radiation equivalent to having seven chest X-rays every day.

Bus Éireann have said most of their services around the country are operating as normal with some delays and diversions in affected areas.

THE cold, calm weather has given pike anglers a chance to tackle a number of lakes, and there were some great fish taken.

A COUNTY Waterford engineering firm that has been placed in liquidation has been ordered to repay about €250,000 to the European Commission over its failure to fulfil a contract to build wind turbines.

A HOP across the river Blackwater and the county boundary from Waterford to Cork for work reasons brings this very nicely extended Kilmacthomas family home to market.

A HOP across the river Blackwater and the county boundary from Waterford to Cork for work reasons brings this very nicely extended Kilmacthomas family home to market.

SOMETIMES when they point the car west for training in Dungarvan it’ll start.

A Kurdish separatist was convicted today of a minibus blast in 2005 that killed five people including Waterford teenager Tara Whelan.

THE large vegetable garden at Tarashomes near Kilmeaden in Waterford has potatoes, cabbages and a variety of edible greens which could help take the bite out of the recession.

IT WAS a long road that led Peter Kirwan back to his starting point. As a youngster in Kill, near Kilmeaden in Waterford, his obsession with Australian Rules brought him to Cranbourne, a feeder club for AFL side Melbourne.

A SPLENDID four-year-old gelding, Woodfield Indy, won the ridden hunter championship at the 92nd Dungarvan Show for Rosemary Connors, Woodstown, Co Waterford.

SUCH is the power of advertising and memorable slogans, that the good people of Kilmeaden must put up with repeated rejoinders about ‘the fillet of cheddar.’

Plans were unveiled today for a skyscraper at the heart of a €380m redevelopment of an old iron foundry in Waterford city.

A 66-year-old woman has been killed in a car crash in Co Waterford.

A LITTLE more than a year ago, he was a supervisor in a local factory.

THE motorway linking Waterford to Dublin remains on schedule for a 2010 completion, with work on the final sections due to start in the coming weeks.