Waterford Fianna Fáil TD Mary Butler has said she will be leaving her constituency office at Waterford City’s Waterside, which she rents from the cousin of a convicted paedophile.

Just 5.5% of rental housing stock across the country is within Housing Assistance Payment (HAP) limits.

House prices have flatlined across the country, rising by less than 1% in 2019, according to the latest property report.

An Bord Pleanála has upheld an appeal against the Tower Hotel in Waterford City to extend its property into a Georgian quarter.

Pre-tax profits at the five-star Druids Glen Hotel and Resort climbed 51% to €1.48m last year.

The new developments will include 52 homes at The Miles, Clonakilty, 50 houses at Poundhill, Skibbereen, and another 50 in Oakwood, Macroom.

It happened when officers were responding to a disturbance on Bridge Street at around 6:30am.

Frontline gardaí and supervisors have expressed fears that the new restructuring of the organisation will result in less, not more, policing in rural areas.

The process of amalgamating garda regions has already begun as gardaí usher in the biggest restructuring of the force in the history of the State.

Thousands of jobs in the meat industry could be lost due to the ongoing impasse between protesting farmers and processors.

The Minister for Transport has launched a public consultation on the future of Ireland's regional airports.

JB Dubois is Head Chef at GIY’s GROW HQ in Waterford City and his wife, Shona Dubois, is the Head of Operations with the organisation.

With rents at a record high and availability at a record low, renters are now having to pay up to €500 more every month than those who are paying a mortgage.

Heritage Week is taking place in Fota Arboretum & Gardens.

A very interesting property has just come on the market with Re/Max’s Waterford City office.

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

An expert on insects has warned of the dangers of noble false black widow spiders as two Co Waterford women have been treated for severe bites with one spending six days in hospital.

Two puppies have been seized in Dublin Port, Revenue have said.

Voters in Limerick City and County could be casting their ballots for their first directly-elected mayor in 2021, a year ahead of schedule.

51-year-old Paul Walsh is missing from his home in Waterford City since March 1.

77% of the 40 towns and cities assessed by An Taisce have been found to be clean.

A round-up of the counts in Munster.

Phil Hogan, as minister for the environment and local government, just about destroyed local democracy in the run-up to his Local Government Act of 2014 and I took no notice.

Angela McGrath/Butler has been located safe and well.

Waterford City auctioneer Ennis Gough Property is offering an intriguing 57-acre holding in South Tipperary.

It is according to the REA Average House Price Index for Quarter One.

The Cork Mayor Campaign said with just 65 days to a plebiscite on the proposal for the soon-to-be-enlarged city, too many questions still remain unanswered about the nature of the new role and the powers the office holder may wield.

In what is likely to be one of the biggest farm sales of the year, Harty & Co Auctioneers in Dungarvan, Co Waterford are beginning the New Year with the announcement of the public auction in March of a 220-acre prime residential farm.

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Eyecare manufacturer Bausch and Lomb is to create 100 jobs at its plant in Waterford City, bringing the number of people employed there to almost 1,500.

‘Consequences of Wild Atlantic Way success must be managed’

A 27-year-old man has died following an assault in Waterford City.

Two charities will benefit from a unique “dawn chorus” cycle taking place next month on the award-winning Waterford Greenway and backed by former world number one cyclist Sean Kelly.

The first victim of paedophile Bill Kenneally to speak out publicly against the former sports coach has welcomed the Government’s approval of a commission of investigation into allegations of State, Garda, and Church collusion in the case.

Parents are about to be surveyed about demand for alternatives to faith-specific primary schools but the local Catholic bishop will have final say on which other patron a building can transfer to.

The Irish flag is marking a significant milestone today.

Revenue officers seized 10kg of contraband tobacco and an Audi A6 car in Waterford City last week.

At €23,298, workers in the Dublin region had the highest disposable income per person in 2015, some 14.5% higher than the State average of €20,334 and around 6% higher than the 2014 average of €21,919.

While most of the talk around the new-look hurling championship has been how it will severely test the depth and durability of each panel, Walsh Park’s hosting of Kilkenny at the weekend brought to light how it’ll test the suitability of certain provincial grounds as well.

Almost half of all women now say they enjoy DIY, but with some hardware stores still bastions of old-fashioned sexism, has the DIY trade cottoned on to the changing times? Ellie O’Byrne meets the sisters who are DIYing for themselves.

Local authorities are set to fall significantly short of new social housing targets this year.

HSE officials will be asked to explain why a county councillor had to wait three hours for an ambulance and why its crew then spent a further two and a half hours outside a Cork hospital before they were given back the trolley on which she had been lying.

It was a year of two halves for house prices in 2017 with a 9% surge in the first six months but almost no change in the second half.