The conclusion of the GAA championships and the National Ploughing usually heralds a watershed in the cattle business — and this year is no different.

A river weir in which two men drowned on a canoeing trip is impassable, accident investigators found.

THE WOMAN had rung the radio show from Cappoquin. There was gloom in west Waterford with the proposed liquidation of the local chicken processing plant, but the lady on the line was having none of it.