WE set off, walking to the right along the beach, first fording a small stream.

Sqm 75 (802 sq ft)

BBC special correspondent Fergal Keane reflects on his Irish childhood in ‘The Gathering — Reflections on Ireland’.

Location: Ardmore, Waterford

An icecream seller has told a High Court judge that Waterford County Council cancelled his beach trading licence in order to placate a local seaside shopkeeper whose custom had been hit.

ARDMORE, WATERFORD €195,000

CLOSE to the Blackwater bridge on the edge of Youghal, but with a Kinsalebeg, Waterford address, is this three-bedroomed semi-detached cottage, with water views.

ARDMORE has very much moved with the times. The new Cliff House Hotel and its Michelin-starred chef, Dutchman Martijn Kajuiter, has put it on a far more sweeping radar for visitors than heretofore.

Tommy Barker visits a house that has been lovingly created by an artist and designer couple.

ARDMORE’S Michelin-starred Cliff House Hotel has brought the rich, the famous, and those in need of pampering and fantastic food to the west Waterford seaside setting.

ARDMORE estate agent Brian Gleeson has his Pebble Beach, Ardmore big ‘un already under offer above its €3 million asking price after just two weeks on the market.

The man accused of murdering a Portuguese national put on steel toe-capped para-boots before joining others for an assault on the victim, it was claimed today as the trial opened in Cork.

A LONG coastal strip of land close to Whiting Bay, Co Waterford has an ambitious price tag of €1.5m.

SUN-SEEKERS are returning to popular beaches near Ardmore after barricades at the centre of a bitter access row were taken down by angry locals.

One New Age traveller has been convicted of murder and two others of the manslaughter of a Portuguese national whose badly beaten body was discovered near a popular scenic beach last year.

The jury in the trial of three New Age travellers accused of the murder of a Portuguese man in Co Waterford last year were sent to a hotel tonight after failing to teach a verdict.

A 43 year-old Portuguese man who was found dead in a field near a New Age traveller’s campsite was the victim of a violent assault and suffered 13 separate blows to the head, a murder trial jury heard today.

A 28 year-old ‘new age’ traveller told gardaí he agreed to allow his girlfriend’s former partner join them on a campsite because he was scared of him.

A THIRD man appeared in court yesterday on a charge relating to the death of 45-year-old Portuguese national Sergio Abreu, whose battered body was found in a field at Whiting Bay near Ardmore, Co Waterford last Saturday.

TWO Scottish men were last night charged in connection with the killing of a 45 -year-old Portuguese man, Sergio Abreu, at a special sitting of Youghal District Court.

Gardai have released two of the people who were taken in for questioning over the murder of a Portugese man.

Gardai have named the man found dead in Waterford yesterday morning.

Four people are being questioned by Gardai with the death of a Portuguese man in Waterford yesterday morning.

Gardai in Waterford have officially launched a murder inquiry after the body of a badly-beaten Portuguese man was found in the early hours of today.

Gardai are investigating the suspicious death of a Portuguese man in his thirties.

The body of a man has been found in suspicious circumstances in Co Waterford.

Gardai in Co Waterford are appealing for information on a missing 20-year-old man.