A WATERFORD city suburb is to get a whole new lease of life, with €30 million to be spent on the area over the next two years.

LOCAL groups in Waterford whose work focuses on the disadvantaged, young people and the elderly are being urged to apply for their share of a €24 million fund which is being made available by the Government from the dormant accounts fund.

Nine men who were arrested after gardaí swooped on a suspected Continuity IRA training camp in the Comeragh mountains were jailed by the Special Criminal Court in Dublin today.

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.

Nine men arrested after gardaí swooped on a suspected Continuity IRA training camp in Co Waterford in 2003 pleaded guilty to firearms offences at the Special Criminal Court in Dublin today.

A MAN slightly injured in Limerick’s third shooting incident this week told gardaí he hid for more than an hour as the gunman searched to finish him off.

A number of shots have been fired at a family home in Waterford last night.

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.