A shellfish harvesting company is warning it will seek millions of euro in compensation if Irish Water proceeds with the construction of a new water treatment plant in east Cork.

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

Dromina House is set in Woodstown, linked in the past Jackie Kennedy and John Profumo. Tommy Barker says spacious home is in good decorative order.

Details of a €10m investment package to develop greenways and cycling routes across the country has been announced.

THE site is more than a match for the size and quality of this house — its 0.75 acre has a lily and fish pond big enough to float a boat (literally), a second small feature pond behind, and a feeder stream at its eastern boundary.

A real life “guardian angel” from the “Gate of Heaven” saved Jacqueline Kennedy from drowning when she holidayed in Co Waterford in 1967.

CELLMOUNT LOOP, DROUMILLIHY WOODS, CO CORK

THE LOUGH, CORK €295,000

IT’S all about the location, in a Waterford county hot-spot – that, and five lovely acres with views.

SISTERS from Woodstown, Co Waterford, Rosemary and Claire Connors had a clean sweep in the ridden hunter classes at the 93rd Dungarvan Show.

A LOCATION near the sea and Woodstown beach, and a pretty unstinting specification, underscore the value of this Kilcop, Co Waterford home.

A SPLENDID four-year-old gelding, Woodfield Indy, won the ridden hunter championship at the 92nd Dungarvan Show for Rosemary Connors, Woodstown, Co Waterford.

KEEP the sweeping brush on standby: sand on the floors is going to be a feature of your new life at this Woodstown, Co Waterford home.

A CRACKDOWN on unlicensed dogs has been launched in Waterford with a dog warden set to call door to door as part of a blitz.

Tommy Barker is impressed by this bungalow with a Continental twist.

MANY secrets of one of the country’s most successful Viking communities are to remain buried after the Minister for the Environment decided on only limited excavation of the hidden settlement.

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.

THEY build ‘em big in Waterford, one of the few Irish cities where value for money seems to be bang on the nail.

WEST Cork breeder Seamus Lehane, Ballymacowen, Clonakilty, won another young horse championship at Midleton Show, held in the mart grounds in Knockgriffin last Sunday.

NOTED breeders Peter and Marion O’Connell won their eighth Simmental championship of 2006 at Clonmel Show — an outstanding achievement for their Raceview herd at Knoppogue, Mallow, which has also won seven interbreed championships.

A post mortem has concluded on the body of a man found in Co Waterford.

Gardaí are treating as suspicious the death of a young man in Co Waterford last night.

AN EXPERT on Viking archaeology and how it can best be preserved and presented is to speak at Waterford Institute of Technology on February 8.

TREASURES unearthed during an archaeological dig in Waterford will be on display in the city later this year.

ENVIRONMENT Minister Dick Roche is under fire for failing to appoint a representative of the Save Viking Waterford Action Group to a planned new strategic management committee on the future of the Woodstown site.

A full-scale consultation process on the next national development plan is due to begin shortly, Transport Minister Martin Cullen said tonight.

A VOLUNTARY group is to press for a full research excavation of one of the country’s richest Viking sites.

ARCHAEOLOGISTS working on the remains of the 9th-century Viking settlement in Waterford admit they have just “scraped the surface” of the historic site.

Neans McSweeney, South East Correspondent

THE Save Viking Waterford action group has proposed that a yearly Viking Ship Festival should be held in Waterford, following the phenomenal success of the Tall Ships Race 2005.

IT was as if the elements were conspiring, wishing that the Tall Ships would never leave Waterford.

I wish to reassure Dr Catherine Swift’s (Irish Examiner letters, June 6). She expressed concern that archaeological work carried out on the Woodstown site, and completed late 2004, is not available on the National Roads Authority website (www.nra.ie).

CONSTRUCTION will begin next year on both the Waterford City bypass and the long-awaited Waterford to Dublin route, Transport Minister Martin Cullen has confirmed.

ENVIRONMENT Minister Dick Roche announced that the route of the Waterford bypass must change to protect an important Viking site.

Environment Minister Dick Roche is reportedly set to receive reports from the National Museum before the end of this month relating to two archaeological sites threatened by roads projects.

Minister for the Environment Dick Roche is set to order the re-routing of the Waterford bypass to protect a major Viking town discovered along the proposed route of the road.

Niamh Nolan

I WISH to correct a number of errors in Donal Hickey’s article headlined ‘Fighting our future for our past’ (Irish Examiner, January 3).

A HERITAGE group in Waterford has vowed to keep pressure on the Government for a full excavation of the Viking site at Woodstown, believed to be one of the oldest Viking settlements in Western Europe.

ARCHAEOLOGISTS excavating the Woodstown Viking site in Waterford believe that a number of other such settlements exist at riverside locations in the south-east.

THE construction of the Waterford city bypass will not be affected by the decision to divert €8 million of its funding to other road projects, the National Roads Authority pledged yesterday.

DELAYING the construction of a second river crossing in Waterford will only anger and frustrate motorists who, for 20 years, have had to endure long queues at the city’s only bridge, local representatives warned yesterday.

THE High Court has ruled against the challenge brought by objectors to works on the M50 motorway on the site of Carrickmines Castle.