Derry’s Marty McCormack (Skoda Fabia R5) heads up the entry for Sunday’s Treaty Plant Hire Limerick Forest Rally, the second round of the Valvoline Irish Forest Rally Championship.

How much do we know about water beneath our feet? Parts of Ireland had bouts of parching in 2018. Soil, on being dug up, was found to have become dust.

An investigation is underway after a motorcyclist in his late 40s was killed in a crash in Co Tipperary.

The upsurge in Irish Forest rallying continues as over 80 crews line up for tomorrow’s Abbey Hotel Munster Moonraker Rally in Ballyvourney.

Tonight, at 10.15pm, it will be a week since the last confirmed sighting of Elisha Gault.

Public and private investment can unlock the potential of Waterford city and county, writes Christy Parker

Looking back at 2017, Michael H Daniels says our nearest neighbour’s trauma is cooling the market here, and is making the future a lot harder to predict    

Agent CBRE Hotels is expecting significant interest in its offering of the three-star Raheen House Hotel, across the river Suir from the town centre of Clonmel, Co Tipperary. 

The turnout and enthusiasm by Waterford hurling supporters as their team arrived home last night after coming so close to All-Ireland glory left many wondering what it will be like when they do go and win it.

Warnings about dangers posed to Irish wildlife by non-native species — most recently highlighted by the reports on the presence of the South American rodent, coypus, in Cork — continue to be realised, writes Donal Hickey.

The opening of a new community sports hub in Clonmel incorporating a 350-metre kayaking slalom course along the river Suir is aimed at helping local clubs grow and improve but also provides a new training base for the national canoe kayak team.

second, high-end Waterford hotel is planned by the purchaser of the Ard Rí/Ardree Hotel as the city positions itself as a pivot in the Ireland’s Ancient East tourism drive.

Richie Power Sr and Richie Power Jr have the distinction of being one of the father and son combinations where both parties won a senior All-Ireland. The final experiences against Tipperary were mixed, but the father passed on important lessons...

I AM researching a project about Irish freshwater fish species. The other day I set off in search of dace. The dace has an interesting story in this country which is quoted in all the scientific papers and popular articles about them.

Gyles Quay is on the outskirts of Waterford City, but located in the more dominant hurling stronghold of Kilkenny. 

Kya deLongchamps visits a classic 18th century Georgian house with gorgeous gardens beautifully incorporated into its seven acres.

Flood victims and farmers have reacted angrily after it emerged that government officials charged with tackling the flood crisis did not meet for up to six years.

Our grey heron weathers the storms, but then he is much better equipped to do so than we are, writes Damien Enright

The effects of Storm Frank are still being felt following the latest severe weather event to lash the country.

The Garda commissioner’s decision to dismiss a member of the force after he admitted stealing €600 from a Garda Social Club is to be challenged in the High Court.

Having three fine sisters himself, The Menu is a great man to hymn the praises of supportive female siblings so reckons the alliance of ‘Three Sisters’ from the South-East, Waterford, Wexford and Kilkenny.

Tomorrow, Sunday July 5, stage two, Utrecht to Zeeland.

Kilkenny hurling supremo Brian Cody is not in the habit of co-operating with the likes of Waterford and Wexford, but has made an exception to join in the south-east region’s bid to become European Capital of Culture.

Knocklofty House may trigger a memory from the 1970’s.

As a boy, writes Damine Enright, I enjoyed catching crayfish in the River Suir near Thurles, Co Tipperary. River-prawns, I called them. I was in short pants at the time.

London-based Churchtown driver Michael O’Brien and fellow north Cork co-driver James O’Brien from Dromtarriffe survived some late drama to win the Carrick on Suir based Willie Loughman Forest Rally, the first round of the Valvoline Irish Forest Rally Championship.

A new book offer unrivalled insight into life in the 9th century. Clodagh Finn turns the clock back.

PORTLAW WITH CURRAGHMORE ESTATE, COUNTY WATERFORD

Motorsport: Organisers of the Irish Forest Rally Championship received a major boost at their awards ceremony in Clonmel on Saturday night with the announcement that Valvoline will underpin the series for the next three seasons.

The Dunlop National Rally Championship will be decided tomorrow, with the nine-stage Downings Bay Hotel Donegal Harvest Rally determining whether reigning Dunlop champion Declan Boyle, current leader Clonmel’s Roy White (MG ZR) or Welsh ace Hugh Hunter (Subaru WRC) will win the prestigious Vard Memorial Trophy.

Inland Fisheries Ireland yesterday approved €230,000 for a number of projects aimed at enhancing some of the country’s top salmon habitats.

Marfield House sits on 390 acres and has planning for a golf course and hotel.

A man has been charged in connection with a robbery that occurred at a petrol station in Co Tipperary yesterday.

Its the city best known for its Blaa, but archaeologists in Waterford are saying “yabadabadoo” today after the fossilised remains of a new type of dinosaur believed to date back 62 million years were discovered there over the weekend.