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CATHERINE DREA: Imagining 2020

by 15/01/20 5:45pm

As I See It: Catherine Drea’s fortnightly column for the Waterford News & Star IT’S that time of the year when we look forward. Even more so at the beginning of a new decade. But that allows for quite a...

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PHOENIX: Electoral Possibilities

by 15/01/20 5:42pm

The Phoenix opinion column, which has been running in the Waterford News & Star for more than 30 years   OVER the past nine years this column has tracked the shocking evisceration of Waterford’s city status by two Fine Gael...

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EDITORIAL: Politicians on your marks, get set…

THE scene is set for General Election 2020, with Taoiseach Leo Varadkar announcing that Saturday, February 8 is polling day....

Tuesday, 14/01/20 - 11:25pm Read More

TIME OUT WITH TIMMY: Gently Does It

Timmy Ryan’s weekly column for the Waterford News & Star   HOPE you got over the Christmas alright, as we...

Tuesday, 14/01/20 - 10:37am Read More

The Deise loses three of the best

THE deaths of Danny McGrath, Johnny Matthews and Dick Hayes has made Christmas 2019 one that will sadly jar in...

Tuesday, 07/01/20 - 12:00pm Read More

VIEW FROM THE GREEN ROOM: All aboard Annie’s Stage Coach

  Pat McEvoy’s weekly reviews as published in the Waterford News & Star   REVIEW: Annie at Barron Hall, Stradbally...

Monday, 23/12/19 - 1:48pm Read More

VIEW FROM THE GREEN ROOM: A Robin Hood Panto Masterclass!

Pat McEvoy’s weekly reviews as published in the Waterford News & Star   REVIEW: Robin Hood and the Babes in...

Monday, 23/12/19 - 1:40pm Read More

CATHERINE DREA: Missing from the Christmas table

  As I See It: Catherine Drea’s fortnightly column for the Waterford News & Star   IT took a while...

Monday, 23/12/19 - 1:34pm Read More

PHOENIX: Festive Cheer

A new vision for Waterford’s North Quays  The Phoenix opinion column, which has been running in the Waterford News &...

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TIMMY RYAN: So here it is!

  Timmy Ryan’s weekly column for the Waterford News & Star   IT’S hard to imagine in 2019 that back...

Monday, 23/12/19 - 1:24pm Read More

PHOENIX: Tackling our housing crisis

IT’S rightly the flavour of the month. None of us ever thought that we would see homeless people on the...

Thursday, 19/12/19 - 10:42am Read More

CATHERINE DREA: Was Christy Moore conceived in Tramore?

  As I See It: Catherine Drea’s fortnightly column for the Waterford News & Star   WELL that’s the question...

Thursday, 19/12/19 - 10:34am Read More

2019: A Year of Books – Part One

THIS week, I start the countdown from tenth place to sixth place of books which I feel are the perfect...

Tuesday, 10/12/19 - 1:46pm Read More

Noeline Power: Smiling from Slievekeale to Tramore

NOELINE Power is immaculately dressed in a warm shade of mustard, with a wide smile offered, not just to me,...

Tuesday, 10/12/19 - 12:13pm Read More

Opinion: Honour the dead by living in the now

NOVEMBER is the traditional month in which Catholics honour their dead. In Mexico, the first two days of the month...

Tuesday, 03/12/19 - 8:00pm Read More

MUM’S THE WORD: Living for the weekend

Aideen Glynn’s weekly column as published in the Waterford News & Star Well! magazine   AND so it begins. The...

Tuesday, 03/12/19 - 10:17am Read More

CATHERINE DREA: Embracing International Men’s Day

  As I See It: Catherine Drea’s fortnightly column for the Waterford News & Star   IT was International Men’s...

Tuesday, 03/12/19 - 10:11am Read More

View from the Green Room: The Bockety World of Henry and Bucket

  Pat McEvoy’s weekly reviews as published in the Waterford News & Star   THERE’S nothing like a children’s play...

Tuesday, 03/12/19 - 10:06am Read More

The Book Nook with Dymphna Nugent

  Book Review: Akin by Emma Donoghue IT’S hard to read a new novel by Emma Donoghue and not make...

Tuesday, 26/11/19 - 8:30pm Read More

Michael Walsh: From Coventry to Catherine Street

MICHAEL Walsh was born in Passage East, Co Waterford before leaving behind school and family at the young age of...

Tuesday, 26/11/19 - 12:30pm Read More