Jordan Norris Janet Carey is a Waterford City native, best known for her role as Marketing and Business Development Manager at Tramore’s Lafcadio Hearn Japanese Gardens. She has been involved in the project from the beginning, having spent 35 years in graphic and web design and marketing, with vast experience in the...
Personality Portrait
Under The Munster Microscope: Michael Garland
Under The Munster Microscope: Michael Garland
Kieran Foley Although he is a proud native of Scotland, Michael Garland has enthusiastically made Waterford his home and has contributed to community life in the Déise in a variety of ways. He has held various high-profile positions locally, including Director of Golf at Waterford Castle Hotel (his reason for coming...
Under The Munster Microscope: Damien Geoghegan
Under The Munster Microscope: Damien Geoghegan
Damien Geoghegan is a Fine Gael Councillor from Dungarvan who is currently serving as the Mayor of Waterford. Damien has served as a councillor for many years and is incredibly proud of his homeplace, Dungarvan. A lover of sport, the arts and all things local – Damien can often be seen at various events accompanied...
Under The Munster Microscope: Seamus Ryan
Under The Munster Microscope: Seamus Ryan
Jordan Norris Seamus Ryan is a Labour Party Councillor for Waterford City South. He first served as a Councillor in 1999, serving as Mayor of Waterford in 2004 as well as being Deputy Mayor on three occasions. A librarian at Waterford Institute of Technology, Seamus is happily married to his wife Deirdre with three...
Under The Munster Microscope: Aisling Moloney
Under The Munster Microscope: Aisling Moloney
Jordan Norris Aisling Moloney is a journalist from Dungarvan, Waterford who is best known for her role as the host of News2Day – a children’s news programme which runs on weekdays on RTÉ2. A graduate of the University of Limerick, a career in the field of TV and radio always called to Aisling, who described...
TQS Integration to sponsor Waterford GAA County Teams
TQS Integration to sponsor Waterford GAA County Teams
TQS Integration announced their 2020 sponsorship of Waterford GAA county teams at a special function at their Group Headquarters in Lismore last week.The sponsorship covers all Waterford county hurling and football teams from under 14 to senior in both codes and will be performance bonus related. Once again. the...
Laura O' Keeffe
Laura O' Keeffe
Laura O’ Keeffe has recently been transferred to the Bank of Ireland Tramore branch as the new Branch Manager. She is a Waterford woman who completed her education in the Ursuline Convent and continued her third level education in WIT where she completed a Certificate in Business Studies. Laura started her...
Terence O'Neill: a happy city life
Terence O'Neill: a happy city life
MATT KEANE MEETS PART TWO Last week we read about the incredible work Terence O’Neill commits to on a daily basis as manager of the Men’s Hostel in Bath Street in Waterford city. Terence relayed some harrowing stories but he also spoke glowingly about the success that has been achieved at the hostel, as...
Sid Wallace on his 'home from home'
Sid Wallace on his 'home from home'
MATT KEANE MEETS Sid Wallace arrived in Waterford in 1975 and he thought he would be here for six months or maybe a little longer. But he remained for five years and it would be fair to say that he fell in love with the Deise and to this day he returns as often as he possibly can to catch up with his many friends....
Noel Kelly on his new play, 'They Think it's All Over'
Noel Kelly on his new play, 'They Think it's All Over'
Part One A new play written by Noel Kelly will run at Central Arts from Friday, March 18th to Sunday, March 20th, as part of the series of 1916-linked commemoration events being held throughout Waterford. In the past, Noel has written such superb plays as ‘Runners’ and ‘Blues in the Night’....
TOSH LAVERY: TALES OF LIFE, DEAH AND DANGER
TOSH LAVERY: TALES OF LIFE, DEAH AND DANGER
MATT KEANE MEETS Part Two In 1996, all of 20 years ago, Tosh Lavery was deeply involved in the investigation of the murder of Veronica Guerin, the Sunday Independent journalist who was gunned down in cold blood behind the wheel of her car at Newlands Cross. “The motor bike was the big factor in that case...
TOSH LAVERY: Tales of Life, Death and Anger
TOSH LAVERY: Tales of Life, Death and Anger
MATT KEANE MEETS The blue eyes of the gravelly voiced Tosh Lavery (aged 62) often sparkle during the full flow of conversation, but when recalling his past both as a member of the Garda Sub-Aqua Unit and as a family man, they can occasionally dim. There’s no doubt whatsoever that the 30 years he spent with An...