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

Government can’t throw the North Quays blanket, that political cloak of invisibility, over everything and expect us to recede happily into urban obscurity

Has Waterford lost its ability to be shocked?

When someone says that there is something drastically lacking with Waterford city centre’s retail offering, the comparison with Athlone is exactly what they mean

The government’s e-tenders website is replete with HSE tenders, big and small, over the past year, for projects everywhere except Waterford. Does that suggest loyalty being repaid?

The South East has 9% of the population but only receives 1.8% of major capital spending

The Cork money tsunami is the whole 'go ahead and build it' deal

Waterford lobbied alone for nearly a century for university status in this region while other places sat on their hands

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