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Programme announced for events taking place during Waterford for Local Enterprise Week

During South East Technological University’s graduation ceremonies this week at SETU Arena, recognisable faces were honoured

Eirewave will be playing 100% Irish pop rock on St Patrick's day with its Shamrock 'n' Roll radio show.

AN TAOISEACH, Leo Varadkar TD, will attend and speak at the 175th Thomas Francis Meagher Tricolour Celebration in Waterford at noon today (Sunday), March 5. Mr.

HEARTFELT tributes have flowed fulsomely following the untimely passing on Monday morning of Bernadette Phillips, a social scientist and activist for the…

WATERFORD will honour the legacy of Thomas Francis Meagher twice over this year, kicking off with next week’s Saint Patrick’s Festival. The TF Meagher Tricolour…

College giving enriches next generation: Editorial Updated Dec 20, 2020; Posted Dec 20, 2020 Paul W, Dower, whose outdoor pursuits included spelunking, has made the largest gift in Westfield State University history. (Photo Provided) Facebook Share Ruth Simmons, the former president of Smith College in Northampton, is no stranger to how educational philanthropy works in our country. At Smith and later at Brown University, she witnessed first-hand the philanthropic patterns at schools rich wit...

December 17, 2020 | Paul Dower, assistant professor in the Department of Agricultural and Applied Economics, has been selected to receive an Elton D. and Carrie R. Aberle Faculty Fellow Award. Dower is a development economist whose research lies at the intersection between political economy, economic history and development economics. Much of his research focuses on how changes in land rights and other agrarian reforms affect agricultural production, conflict, democratization and migration. Th...

$3.5M from former student Paul Dower’s estate is largest private donation in Westfield State University history Updated Dec 17, 2020; Posted Dec 17, 2020 Paul W, Dower, whose outdoor pursuits included spelunking, has made the largest gift in Westfield State University history. (Photo Provided) Facebook Share It is the largest private donation in Westfield State’s 181-year history. The gift will support two restricted funds: $1 million to endow the Last Mile Fund and $1 million to establis...