John Burke and his daughter Fatti, an illustrator, joined forces to create Irelandopedia, the bestselling book on all things Irish. Their follow-up, Historopedia, looks to Ireland’s past.

More than €367,000 hasalready been paid out for flood relief claims, but the Department of Social Protection said more claims are likely.

Local authorities remain on high alert for flood and weather related damage, with further storms forecast

WATERFORD

Waterford

The cost of cleaning up and repairing the damage caused by Storm Christine along the Waterford coast in the last fortnight has been conservatively estimated at €3.5m.

WATERFORD SHC FINAL:

Four fishermen were plucked from the water at Tramore Bay by search and rescue services yesterday after their fishing vessel capsized, near the spot where three brothers died while fishing in June.

Two Canadian girls whose decision to throw a message in a bottle into the Atlantic ocean are set to arrive in this country later today.

The young boy who found an eight-year-old message in a bottle from the other side of the world after it washed up in his sleepy hometown said he was treated like a celebrity during a whirlwind trip to the note’s starting place.

Schoolboy Oisin Millea is bringing his family on holidays to Canada, and he’s taking his message in a bottle with him.

Three coffins; three hearses outside the church in the village of Crooke; three men who loved boats and fishing from the time they could walk.

The small community of Passage East in Waterford will come together this afternoon for the funeral mass of three brothers who died in a fishing accident.

The three brothers who drowned off the Co Waterford coast will be buried today but the boat in which they made their tragic last fishing expedition remains at sea, unable to be brought ashore because of poor weather.

The families of the three brothers who died at sea off the Co Waterford coast were yesterday preparing to lay them to rest, as local fishermen said fish-catch regulations had meant the Bolgers had been forced out to sea with lobster pots instead of fishing salmon on the Suir estuary.

The people of Passage East have always gone to sea, but yesterday all they could do was think about the boat that failed to come home.

Fishing communities may be more familiar than the rest of us with fatal tragedies at sea but that does not mean they are any less heartbreaking.

Post-mortems will be carried out today on the bodies of three brothers who drowned when their fishing vessel overturned at sea.

After a weekend of joyous sunshine in the South-East, the turn in the weather has brought a gloomy dose of reality, with a sweeping, windy squall drowning out the delights of Tramore beach.

A small coastal community in Co Waterford is shrouded in tragedy this morning following the deaths of three brothers who drowned when their fishing boat capsized.

CELLMOUNT LOOP, DROUMILLIHY WOODS, CO CORK

Oisin Millea, the boy who found a message in a bottle yesterday contacted the women who launched it into the sea eight years ago — and he may meet them in person next year after Tourism Ireland offered to fly them to Ireland for The Gathering.

Charline and Claudia from Montreal — your message has finally arrived.

Neutral Shores: Ireland and the Battle of the Atlantic

There were shock weekend defeats for Waterford SH champions Ballygunner and pre-championship favourites De La Salle who went down to Dungarvan and Fourmilewater, respectively.

THE CELTIC CAMINO IN WATERFORD AND TIPPERARY

The spark was lit during the summer of 2002, the weekend of Stephen Quigley’s wedding in Indianapolis.

CLEAR the decks, nail your colours to the mast and check the cut of your jib.

The recovery of a missing fisherman’s body more than a month after he was lost at sea has brought bittersweet relief to his heartbroken family and friends, rescuers said.

IT’S all about the location, in a Waterford county hot-spot – that, and five lovely acres with views.

WATERFORD GAA chiefs are hopeful of breaking even by year’s end despite the downturn in the economy.

GOLF courses and houses built in the ground of period mansions became something of a formulaic cliche in the Celtic Tiger era, but many proved viable working models and saved old houses for future generations as well.

IRELAND’S “curviest” woman, Brianna Connaughton from Waterford, was literally lost for words when style guru Gok Wan told her she could look forward to a very successful modelling career.

AT Barrack Street in the small village of Passage East in Waterford there’s an attractive two-bed renovated period property.

Fingal Gets Gold: Congratulations to Fingal Ferguson of Gubbeen Farmhouse Products Ltd. on winning a gold medal at the Great Taste Awards 2007 for his delicious chorizo sausage. www.gubbeen.co.

THEY build ‘em big in Waterford, one of the few Irish cities where value for money seems to be bang on the nail.

WATERFORD County Council has refuted claims that it is to blame for constant traffic congestion in part of the county which has spurred demonstrations since the Summer.

Hundreds of locals have today mounted a protest against the use of Passage East in Co Waterford as an access point for a car ferry to Co Wexford.

RESIDENTS in Passage East in Waterford say they are sick and tired of traffic congestion and will mount blockades, even go to jail if necessary, to free up their streets.

TALL SHIPS revellers will have to be out of their bunks early tomorrow to see the 86 magnificent vessels depart Waterford.

IF, as predicted, Fianna Fáil loses two seats in Waterford, the finger of blame will be pointed at Health Minister Micheál Martin.

The Garda Press Office has issued a personal message for John Kehoe, from Passage East in Co Waterford.