A job well done: a repaired section of the Curraghmore Wall completed during Christmas 2020. December 27th, 2020. I pull in along a stretch of road above my homeplace in Portlaw to take in a job brilliantly done. A significant section of the Curraghmore Wall, the stoniest stretch I know best, has been masterfully reconstituted over the previous five to six weeks. Below a blanket of grey cloud and with the dipping sun providing a beautiful golden scar just above the horizon di

Alfie Hale (furthest left) with his Waterford FC team mates prior to their 1968/69 European Cup meeting with holders Manchester United at a sold-out Lansdowne Road. Photo: With thanks to Alfie Hale #TrueBlue #AlfieHale #ChoicePublishing #BookCentre #Waterford #Football Who was the best player you ever played with? I got to play with a lot of good players, but John Giles stands out due to his skill and his brilliant attitude towards the game. John was an awesome footballer. We

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#OldParish #CiaranMurphy #GAA #Waterford 'Old Parish: Notes on Hurling' by Ciarán Murphy is a love letter to the joy of family, sport...

Fr Paschal Moore has played and loved music since his childhood. The bell signalling the Angelus is sounding at Piltown’s Church of the...

Curraghmore Estate once again happily heaved during ATN's sixth chapter. Photo: Aron Cahill for ATN An additional evening’s...

#Waterford #WestWaterford #Dail #ElectoralCommission #Politics THE addition of a fifth Dáil seat in the Waterford constituency is...

The Coast Guard Station at Bonmahon was officially opened on December 11th, 2023. IT’S a breezy mid-February night on the Copper Coast....

Dominant centre-back during the golden age of Mount Sion & Waterford hurling   #MartinOg #MountSion #Deise #Munster #Hurling #GAA...

#ShineALight #FocusIreland #Waterford It’s a sad indictment of successive governments, stretching back into the late 1980s, that this...

#Beatrix #Curraghmore #Waterford #History “Going by the evening train, I got an awful scare that my only companion in the carriage – an...

#ATN #Curraghmore #Waterford Five ‘chapters’ in, and All Together Now (ATN) really feels like a proudly established fixture on the...

"Today the summer has come at my window with its sighs and murmurs; and the bees are plying their minstrelsy at the court of the...

#MentalHealth #Hope #Gratitude Almost a decade ago, I was among the speakers at the ‘Light The Way’ mental health awareness event...

#Curraghmore #Portlaw #Waterford On Friday, April 12th, I was delighted to be the guest speaker at the Annual General Meeting of the...

#Power #HeroBooks #Kilkenny #GAA The home of Ann and Richie Power in the Kilkenny village of Stoneyford isn’t bedecked by the many...

In a Sunday Times interview on August 3rd, Dr Barry O'Driscoll and his wife Beryl told Owen Slot about his dementia diagnosis. The...

#ATN23 #Curraghmore #Waterford #IggyPop A treasured gift was once again consulted as I reflected on the latest ‘chapter’ of All Together...

#Waterford #Dungarvan #JournalismMatters #MakingNews This week’s round-up begins in the pages of the Dungarvan Leader, which reports on...

#Waterford #Dungarvan #JournalismMatters This week’s round-up tees off in the sports pages of the Waterford News & Star, where Daragh...