“The South East enters Budget 2027 with the State’s widest regional output gap, a planning framework that has designated but not resourced its city, and a two decade record of commitments not converted into delivered capital.

The Phoenix writes a weekly column in Waterford News & Star

The IDA had a record 513 new investments in Ireland in the past 18 months... one came to Waterford

You cannot bully national retailers, so the Michael Street site is derelict and empty to this day

It now seems that Waterford has been written out of the current National Plan

Is one out of 323 a fair share, considering Amgen is simultaneously moving to Dun Laoghaire?

Limerick 224-Waterford 0 is a score sheet that Ministers Butler and Cummins shouldn’t be happy with

Can we plan in the old city without certainty of what will eventually appear across the Suir?

This appears less like unfairness and more like being treated as second-class citizens

We want balanced regional development, but Government inaction runs counter to stated policy

William Bolster almost on his own found a willing investor and saved the project

Will someone explain why SETU Waterford should not be UCW, University College Waterford?

If cutting of anything has to be done, it should be done in those places which have been continually bloated with state funding and resources, and not here

Regardless of what anyone in politics says, the constraints, which apply to Waterford, do not affect our one-time peer cities

The minister has given no time-line for the completion of this facility, nor indeed said if it will go ahead at all. Now you see it, now you don’t!

The level of disposable income is visible in Dublin, Cork and Galway

Is bureaucracy being used, for political reasons, to obscure actual staffing figures?

Is the main Dáil opposition happy with glacial progress?

After the shameful airport debacle, where the full power of government was deployed to stop a tiny development, there has to be 'good news'

The circular argument goes, if nothing is being delivered anyway, people seek alternatives, in protest against systemic unfairness