Once you got past the traffic, there was plenty fun to be had at Curraghmore, writes Joe Leogue.

Once you got past the traffic, there was plenty fun to be had at Curraghmore, writes Joe Leogue.

Many stranded as opening day debacle sparks fury towards festival organisers for lack of planning and information.

Fine Gael Senator Paudie Coffey has settled his High Court action over a newspaper article which he said defamed him when he was likened to an 18th-century highway robber in an article about boundary changes in south Kilkenny.

The Agora Companies - which currently employs 270 people - is celebrating 20 years in the South East.

A man has died and another man is injured after a two-car crash in Co. Waterford.

A man who suffered a serious back injury after he fell off his bike which slipped on a road surface where he claimed excessive sealant had been used has been awarded €64,000 by a High Court judge.

A 28-year-old Waterford man has been charged with assault causing harm following the death of John Lowe in Portlaw in Co Waterford yesterday afternoon.

A man in his 20s was arrested at the scene.

Fine Gael Senator Paudie Coffey believes the loss of his Dáil seat in 2016 by 300 votes was due to a newspaper article about county boundary changes which likened him to an 18th century robber, the High Court has heard.

The heatwave is not over yet, with temperatures expected to hit 30C again later this week.

A new music festival has been announced in Waterford.

The Department of Education has said the decision to close schools for a second day today was taken on child safety grounds as school authorities were only beginning to check the buildings to see what, if any damage, they sustained thanks to yesterday’s unprecedented storms.

Having toured the length and breadth of Ireland, Barry Coughlan finds much more to discover in Ireland’s Ancient East.

Phew… that was the general consensus at the end of a too-close for comfort match which put Ireland in the quarter-final of the Rugby World Cup once more.

Mary Black plays live in the open-air courtyard of the 2,500-acre Curraghmore Estate in Portlaw, Waterford, on Saturday, September 19, as part of the Comeraghs Wild Festival. Tickets are €27.50 and on sale from www.comeraghswild.com 

The country’s first canyoning expedition through a waterfall is one of the highlights of a festival taking place this month against the backdrop of a stunning mountain range.

Imokilly 0-20 UCC 0-17: Imokilly’s greater balance in attack proved vital in returning the divisional outfit to the Cork SHC fourth round after a six-year hiatus.

US-based international publishing group Agora has announced a 300% increase in employment at its Irish operations, with 100 jobs set to come on stream at a new €4.4m development in Co Waterford.

Former Irish National and Tarmac Group N champion, Kerry’s Alan Ring, admits that it’s taking him time to adjust the power and pace of the Mel Evans S12B Subaru WRC. 

Portlaw Heritage group in Co Waterford is planning a post-Christmas walk that will help aid the local community-run Martin Day Care Centre.

This year was the year of the Big Ask, but of a lot less delivery, in the multi-million euro house sale league.

PORTLAW WITH CURRAGHMORE ESTATE, COUNTY WATERFORD

Kya deLongchamps revels in a book which uses fascinating visual material from Irish mansions to illustrate life at that time and the dynastic tales behind the scenes

Anti-water charges campaigners predict more than 100,000 protesters will be on the streets at 70 demonstrations around the country this Saturday.

Gardaí investigating the theft of a trailer stumbled upon the most southerly diesel laundering plant in the country, which was capable of annually producing 10m litres and defrauding the State of €5m.

Officers from Revenue's Customs Service assisted by an Garda Síochána have uncovered a sophisticated fuel laundering plant in a commercial premises in Portlaw, Co. Waterford.

Location: Portlaw, Waterford

PORTLAW-CURRAGHMORE LOOP

PORTLAW AND KILBUNNY CHURCH LOOP

One day last week we woke to sunshine after days of deluges and flooding on West Cork roads and (once again) in the towns of Bandon and Clonakilty.

Young trainer Pat O’Connor from Tarbert, Co. Kerry is having a great season and will be represented in the Champion Stakes at the National Meeting in Clonmel in February by Liam Nolan’s (Moyvane) Catrionas Joy, the overnight favourite, who collected his second Cup of the season at the Dungarvan meeting (at Cappoquin) yesterday when he won the Deise Cup.

The history of the Irish Derby is laden with fairytales and invariably one or two such stories emerge each year as we approach the final.

Broadstrand Lad, one of Ireland’s most consistent top class trackers for the past three seasons, has been withdrawn from the quarter finals of the Ladbrokes Irish Derby at Shelbourne Park on Saturday night and has been retired from racing.

Eleven nursing homes closed in the last two years following inspections by the State’s health watchdog, it has emerged.

Inspections carried out at a Co Waterford nursing home show a catalogue of failure to address shortcomings over a period of 18 months, leading to concern for its residents.