WATERFORD Crystal champagne flutes sparkled in the sunshine yesterday as hundreds gathered in Waterford city to celebrate a new dawn for the city’s best-known export.

A SCHOLARSHIP exchange programme for business students at Waterford Institute of Technology is to build on age-old links between the south-east region and the Canadian province of Newfoundland and Labrador.

A MASSIVE redevelopment and rebranding of Waterford’s Viking Triangle and an iconic pedestrian bridge connecting the Clock Tower with the city’s north quays are the centre-pieces of Waterford’s pitch to the Government under the Gateway Innovation Fund.

WATERFORD CITY councillors have urged IDA Ireland to deliver substantial investment projects for the city.

MANY thousands will flock to Dungarvan in Co Waterford for the Féile na nDéise traditional music festival and to Kilkenny for the Rhythm and Roots festival this Bank Holiday Weekend.

GOLF and soccer lovers are queuing up to dig deep in aid of a very worthy appeal.

THE Tall Ships’ Race has been and gone but the spirit and buzz which made the event so special is captured in images which have selected for a new calendar.

WATERFORD City Council has partnered with Swimworld Ltd, a Galway-based water leisure company headed up by Joe Cosgrove, to deliver a major redevelopment project at Waterford Regional Sports Centre in Kilbarry.

Fine Gael Foreign Affairs spokesman Gay Mitchell has called for immediate debate in Ireland on a common European defence policy.