The 'factory town' described by Dr Emmett O’Connor, albeit changing, has no current appeal

This writer cannot be the only one in Waterford who travels to Dublin or Dublin airport and ogles at the almost unbelievable spread of investment and infrastructure around the capital

Martin Cullen was offered the chief whip position by Bertie Ahern in 2002 and refused it precisely because it was powerless

Time at the top is short, so grab every cent of constituency funding you can, before the inevitable ballot box failure

Our council is trying very hard to do many things, but it appears that we have shotgun blast, instead of rifle accuracy

A medical school would unite the disparate strands, deliver medical equity to the hospitals of the south east and drive disposable income and footfall across the city

The map has, unwittingly or not, a cloud over the south east of Ireland as if to indicate that 'here be demons'

There is no major hospital in Maynooth, yet it opened a new school of nursing last July, showing again the ability of universities operating under traditional legislation to act swiftly

Must we conclude that this condition does not impact this region?

A report in the national papers a few weeks ago announced how Irish Rail’s plans to upgrade the national rail system would widen Dublin’s commuter belt.

Ferrybank was the Northern Liberties of the city for hundreds of years - it was detached from Waterford in 1899

The current projects being delivered to Waterford do not remedy years of chronic underinvestment

A design will be accepted and construction may eventually commence, with the chances of success in the lap of the gods

The palace will soon be 300 years old and has aged gracefully, it’s an ornament to Waterford city

Maybe it’s only me, but is there a palpable sense of drift around politics and government? 

Road capacity can only deliver so much while we persist in our love affairs with suburban living and the private car

The politically chosen path, linking WIT with Carlow IT and creating a new Wexford campus to form SETU, is complicated and as yet without the funding, borrowing powers or organizational structures of a complete university

It would be far better if South East TDs questioned the national allocation of resources rather than flogging the 'everything is going to Waterford' hare

The recent designation of 'Best place to live in Ireland' didn’t fall from the skies; much good work is going on

The work on the small plaza surrounding the Clock Tower is nearing completion. It looks terrific. It’s another step on the way towards properly presenting the quays.