It’s time to let the imagination run wild in Waterford as the 15th annual Imagine arts festival kicks off in style this week.

IT MAY be the country’s oldest city — celebrating its 1,100th birthday this year — but as a tourist destination Waterford city has, perhaps unfairly, suffered from a perception as the poor cousin of the likes of Dublin and Cork.

Children as well as adults could soon be seeing some of the country’s biggest attractions in a new light — as they become the settings for interactive treasure hunts.

For the first time in more than 1,000 years a foreign invader made his way onto our shores via longboat yesterday — but, unlike the Vikings, this one was welcomed with cheers and waves by the natives.