Modern eyesore for heritage town

SOME years ago, in a widely applauded move, Waterford county council purchased the CBS monastery in Lismore for use as a regional office.

It was then decided to build the headquarters of the council’s library service behind the old monastery.

Last week the Minister for the Environment, Mr Dick Roche, visited Lismore to officially open this headquarters. He stated that the HQ was “a sensitive and well-executed extension in the case of the new library.”