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WATERFORD CITY & TRAMORE IT’S with deep and sad regret that we place on record the death of Frank Frankie Dineen, Stephen’s Street, Waterford…

WATERFORD CITY & TRAMORE IT’S with deep and sad regret that we place on record the death of Patrick Addy O’Sullivan, Andrew Street, Waterford, and late of CIE…

WATERFORD CITY & TRAMORE IT’S with deep and sad regret that we place on record the death of Richard Power, Congress Place, Waterford, who was called from this…

WATERFORD CITY & TRAMORE IT’S with deep and sad regret that we place on record the death of Catherine Kitty Kennedy nee Curran, St. Otteran’s Terrace, Tramore…

Comments Who invented St. Patricks Day? What is its history? You may never have heard of him, but we owe him a deep debt of gratitude, for Luke Wadding is the man we can all thank, praise or blame for making St. Patricks Day the day it is. Luke Wadding, a Co. Waterford-native born in October 1588, was a Franciscan priest ordained in 1613 and sent as a chaplain to Rome in 1618. Once there, he soon began raising funds for an Irish college for clerical students studying for the pr...

DID you know that ‘garda’ is one of the most frequently used ‘Irish’ words?! And that overall, there are nearly 300 words in the Oxford English dictionary that relate to the Irish language?! WIT languages expert Dr Chris Mulhall has described how there are many ‘types’ of Irish people mentioned in the dictionary. A lot of it, he said, had somewhat negative overtures too, with words like ‘gombeen’ and ‘sleeven’ amongst those listed! Chris was speaking to Damien Tiernan on thi...