Homelessness is one of the most pressing societal issues of our time. Every one of us has a right to a place we can call home. Yet, in Ireland today, more and more people are becoming homeless. Th...

The bell signalling the Angelus is sounding at Piltown’s Church of the Assumption while Father Paschal Moore is detailing the track-by-track inspiration behind his new CD, ‘Soulful Harmonica’.Fr Pasch...

An additional evening’s entertainment, combined with a terrific line-up, revised layout and welcomingly benign weather made this year’s All Together Now (ATN) festival the best edition yet.Over four n...

#Waterford #WestWaterford #Dail #ElectoralCommission #Politics THE addition of a fifth Dáil seat in the Waterford constituency is unlikely to weaken the representative voice of Dungarvan and West Wate...

IT’S a breezy mid-February night on the Copper Coast. Thankfully, for the six volunteers present at Bonmahon Coast Guard’s €5.2 million headquarters, all is quiet both on land and at sea.  Acting Offi...

While I was gathering oral history for my PhD, traveling the boreens and byways of North Mayo and West Sligo, I interviewed one old man who wanted me to come outside into his garden before I left his ...

Dominant centre-back during the goldenage of Mount Sion & Waterford hurling  #MartinOg #MountSion #Deise #Munster #Hurling #GAA #Waterford The late, great Martin Óg Morrissey, who died on December 19th, 2023, aged 90. Martin Óg Morrissey, the legendary Mount Sion and Waterford hurler who died on December 19th (in his 91st year), loved a good story and ‘was never shy in sharing the legend of his own greatness’. This delightful characterisation, shared by son Eamon at Martin Óg’s Requiem Mass in B