African community holds protest in city
OVER 40 people largely made up of African communities from Waterford and across Ireland gathered in protest outside Waterford Court House on Wednesday last. The crowd were protesting the decision of...
View ArticleEscaping to home ground
KEITH Barry is demolishing a breakfast roll when I meet him in a local bar to talk about his latest escapades. Not a bother on him despite the fact one of his stage tricks went dangerously wrong only...
View ArticleIn this week’s Waterford News & Star
A Waterford woman reveals the trauma but also new lease of life of having her breast removed. A JobBridge internship in a Waterford hotel did not live up to the expectations of one local man. Check out...
View ArticleTime university fiasco ended
AS the fiasco surrounding Waterford’s campaign for a university continues, it has never been more crucial for the key stakeholders in the south east to rise above political machinations and demand what...
View ArticleDarren Skelton on stage with View from the Blue 2
SOMEONE somewhere thought it would be a good idea to put the View from the Blue column, published every week in the Waterford News & Star’s Well! magazine, on stage, so we tried it last year....
View ArticleAirline withdraws service from Waterford to London-Luton
Passengers booked on the Waterford-London Luton route from June 16th on are being advised to contact the airline directly after the shock announcement that VLM Airlines is to cease the service....
View ArticleEDITORIAL: Stay At Home
IF you are feeling frightened now it is no surprise. 1,640 new cases of Covid-19 in one week in Waterford is shocking, and the results of that are already impacting our hospital. Day after day, hour by...
View ArticleEditorial: A media watchdog of merit and good standing
The Council Chamber at City Hall, Waterford. CONOR D McGuinness, a Dungarvan-based councillor for Sinn Féin, took a cheap shot at the media during January’s plenary meeting of Waterford City and County...
View ArticleInternational Women’s Day 2021: Women of Worth
Mary Frances Ryan, Editor, Waterford News & Star DURING our schooldays we are told we are all unique, and how wonderful that is. We are told to embrace our passions, what we love. It is something...
View ArticleAn Taisce to appeal High Court decision on Belview cheese factory
Glanbia’s Ireland Ingredients plant in Belview An Taisce has this evening (Friday, 7 May, 2020) confirmed its intention to seek leave to appeal the recent decision of the High Court dismissing its...
View Article#YourFitness: Difficult to swallow
“I’VE been in a calorie deficit all week and I haven’t lost any weight” said someone who (probably) hasn’t been in a calorie deficit all week. This is a very frustrating place to be and a lot of people...
View ArticleNo airs, just Grace: MEP Grace O’Sullivan’s meteoric rise
MEP Grace O’Sullivan’s meteoric rise as a leading force for activist politics in Europe Waterford city UCC student Alana Daly Mulligan talks to MEP Grace O’Sullivan about Food Security, Brexit, the...
View ArticleFirst day at school in the Déise!
TO celebrate the return to school across the Déise we are compiling a First Days at School photo special to be published in a forthcoming edition of the Waterford News & Star. If you would like...
View ArticleFESTIVE STAR CHILDREN’S COLOURING COMPETITION!
CALLING all young budding Déise artists to colour in the beautiful ‘ Festive Star’ illustration created by our cover artist Lisa Keane. Pick up the Festive Star – on sale in all good newsagents – to...
View ArticlePHOENIX: Rubber chickens
‘Haughey travelled the length and breadth of the country on the rubber chicken circuit’ The Phoenix opinion column has been running in the Waterford News & Star for more than 30 years POLITICAL...
View ArticleSex abuser named as victim tells of childhood ordeal
On Monday, Hurley, who was living in hostel accommodation in Waterford city, was jailed for three years after a jury at Dublin Circuit Criminal Court convicted him following a three-day trial last...
View Article€4,789,731 allocated to 65 Waterford sports clubs
SIXTY-FIVE Waterford sports clubs and organisations have been awarded a total of €4,789,731 in funding under the latest round of the Sports Capital and Equipment Programme. Fine Gael Senator John...
View ArticleCelebrating the women of the Déise
By Mary Frances Ryan, Editor, Waterford News & Star WHEN interviewed recently by a fantastic Déise woman – the author, documentary maker and Gaeilgeoir Catherine Foley – who has given voice to many...
View ArticleGardaí issue appeal for assistance in tracing missing girl (14)
Gardaí are appealing to the public for assistance in tracing the whereabouts of Courtney Cummins, pictured above, who is aged 14 years and is missing from her home in Waterford since Monday, March 28,...
View ArticleGardaí seize cars in Waterford
Waterford Gardaí conducted a multi-agency checkpoint with the RSA, Customs Office and Social Welfare Inspectors near Waterford City recently. Two cars were seized for having no NCT or insurance, while...
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