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 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.

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

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 

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.

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.

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.

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.

The quality of the entry for tomorrow’s Carrick on Suir based Willie Loughman Forest Rally, the second round of the Valvoline Forest National Rally Championship bodes well for the series that earlier this week wrapped up a television deal.

A WATERFORD nursing home closed by court order earlier this month had resolved just one of 30 serious issues raised by inspectors since 2010.

THERE had been genuine fears there would be a shortage of greyhounds to satisfy all the extra racing in Dublin in the build-up to Christmas.

The rectory in Portlaw, designed in 1849, has all the modern comforts. Trish Dromey reports

TWO kayakers lost their lives at a dangerous weir where lifesaving equipment had been damaged by vandals and was not replaced, a marine casualty investigation revealed.

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

IT’S a pity that neither President Barack Obama nor Britain’s Queen Elizabeth II will be on southern Irish soil until next month.

Question: What Coursing Derby winner was not eligible to contest a Coursing Bred stake on the track?

THE Ballincollig express train Leeview Jet will make a rapid return to action when he contests the Red Mills Waterford Masters which kicks off at Kilcohan Park on Saturday night.