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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. Patrick's 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. Patrick's 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 priesthood.  He had accumulated great power in Rome and succeeded in his quest, opening the colle...