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Why are Carrots good for our Skin?

Our body finds it hard to repair the damage to our skin and hair caused by the sun's rays and air pollutants. Carrots and other orange fruits and vegetables (such as pumpkins, melons, and oranges) contain Beta-Carotene, which is widely recognised for its anti-oxidant and anti-ageing properties. Yes To Carrots Paraben Free formulations of Beta-Carotene and minerals assist our the skin's natural process in reducing this damage, helping it to positively GLOW!

Why the Dead Sea (apart from the fact that it is fun to float in)?

The Dead Sea marks the lowest place on earth and is the deepest hyper-saline lake in the world. The Dead Sea contains 26 minerals and trace elements that are known

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Brendan Grace returns to play Forum Waterford on Friday and Saturday, February 8th and 9th and it's a funny old world when seen through his eyes.

The sanctimonious priest who knows more than he's telling:

''Blessed is he who gets married .. in the nick of time!''.

The father of the bride makes a speech at his daughters wedding:

''She could have married someone with money; she could have married someone who was working. She could have married someone who wasn't working.. but was willing to work.''

Then there's the schoolboy with the unspeakable personal habits and a fine line in sympathy pleas.

Brendan Grace is all of these and more.

Each cock- eyed portrait he paints has a ring of truth that brings audiences to the point of apoplexy.

Brendan's material owes more to the best of the traditional stand-up-comics then it does to modern alternative humour

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Stagemad Theatre company returned from New York after a very successful 6 night run to packed houses each night! at the Irish Arts Centre New York City with "are you the wife of Michael Cleary" the New York city audiences were most appreciative of Stagemad's production of Gino Dilorio's work. As ambassadors for the arts in Waterford, Stagemad are very proud of their achieviement in getting the play to New York City. Stagemad would like to thank the people of Waterford city and county for all their support!

Stagemad are making preperations for their next production which will be published soon.

Watch out for Stagemad you'd be mad to miss them!

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Coming soon to Garter Lane Arts Centre is the lovely ballet "Coppelia".

This is the story of an eccentric old man (Des Manahan) who makes life size mechanical dolls. The village neighbours are

inquisitive about him, especially Franz (Glen Murphy) and his fiancee Swanhilda (Shauna Ridgard) which leads to intrigues and interesting discoveries.

Full of colourful mime acting and dancing and suitable for all ages it runs from Wednesday February, 13th to Saturday 16th February at 8pm with a matinee on the Saturday at 3 pm.

Booking is at Garter Lane Box Office (051) 855038

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As well as being Waterford's "Mecca" of new music with up-coming appearances by Cathy Davey, Tom Baxter, Future Kings Of Spain and The Flaws amongst others, there's a lot more going on at Electric Avenue every week.

After a 4 week break to re-charge the batteries, the legendary SLEEP live Jam session returns to the avenue this Wed (30 Jan). Now in it's 6th year, the infamous session that started at King's bar found a new home in the Front Bar at Electric Avenue early in 2007, and has been packing them in every Wed night since. The cream of Waterford's musicians and singers just set up and play from 10.30pm til late each week and you are guaranteed some great instrumental jams, some great classic rock, reggae & soul cover versions and most of all a brilliant atmosphere.

A new

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Led Zeppelin are the biggest rock band the World has ever seen. At their peak during the 70s, they were selling twice as many records as their closest rivals The Rolling Stones and set a new record for live audience numbers on each successive tour. When Robert Plant, Jimmy Page, John Paul Jones and John Bonham's son (Jason) announced they were reforming for a show at the O2 arena in London last December, 20 million fans around the world applied for the 20,000 tickets available. The reviews of that concert from all the leading rock press (Q, Mojo, Uncut, NME) were universal in their praise of the pure power of the performance and majesty of the songs. Led Zeppelin set the template for all hard rock acts that followed and are loved as much by alternative acts like The White

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WIT guitar society held their first concert in Garter Lane last Wednesday, 23rd January and were pleased to announce that it was a complete success. Over 100 people attended the event which was hosted by Garter Lane Arts Centre and helped to raise over €700 for the society. As well as being their first official event, it was the launch of Waterford New Music Week 2008 (Sunday the 3rd to Friday the 8th of Feb.) which will celebrate the life and works of French composer Olivier Messiaen, (1908-1992), one of the twentieth century's most important figures.

They would like to say a very special thank you to the people who made this event possible: Caroline Senior and all at Garter Lane Arts Centre; the musicians including WIT students Mark Dudley, Jennifer Hartery, Barry Reid, Pat Creamer and Colin Harries; Michael

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Freddie White has long been synonymous with music of the highest quality. Whether interpreting songs by his favourite writers, such as Randy Newman, Tom Waits, John Hiatt and Guy Clark, or performing his own classy compositions, Freddie's live performances are nothing short of legendary.

Freddie has been part of the fabric of the live music scene in Ireland since the 1970's and his albums continue to sell well, amongst his loyal and new-found fan base.

Born in County Cork into a musical family, by age thirteen Freddie was playing in school bands and by seventeen playing professionally. At nineteen, he moved to London, where he busked in subways, and developed his unique voice and guitar style.

In 1974, he was a founding member of 'Scullion', together with Philip King and Sonny Condell. Later he formed 'The Fake', regarded as one of

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LOCAL performers are to join a host of international guest soloists for a gala concert to celebrate the opening of the Edmund Rice Heritage Centre Mount Sion.

The line up for the prestigious event at the Theatre Royal on February 8 includes The Barrack Street Band, The Edmund Rice Choral Society, the Scoil Chriost Ri boys Choir from Cork and a host of international guest soloists.

Among the guest soloists on the evening are Kathryn Smith, Antoinette Heery and Paul Kelly. Kathryn has been teaching singing at the Leinster School for over 14 years. She has brought many of her students to professional level and many have been involved in prominent shows and concerts in Ireland and abroad, including the very successful Riverdance Company.

Kathryn herself is one of Ireland's most popular and versatile performers. She has toured Ireland, Europe and the

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Heritage Centre launch attracts prominent author and historian

The mammoth contribution the Christian Brothers made to Irish education and society is to be celebrated and brought to life through a lecture and a play as Waterford commemorates the life and work of the order's founder, the great Edmund Rice.

Internationally renowned author and historian, Dr Daire Keogh, (pictured right), visits Waterford for a public lecture on February 6. The very same night, Br Dan Casey performs his one-man play, 'Edmund Rice' at Mount Sion Primary School.

The lecture and play are all part of a series of events which mark the launch of the newly-renovated and redeveloped historic Mount Sion site on Barrack Street in the city.

Dr Keogh's talk is eagerly awaited. A lecturer in Early Modern European and Irish History at St Patrick's College, Dr Keogh was recently awarded a senior Government

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It's that time of year again – for all you talented singers to grab the microphone @ Revolution on Thursday nights and be in with a chance to win 1,000 in CASH

Last year seen some great talent – great heats, and some disappointment for those who did not get through. The Clapometer is there to gain the audience reaction – so make sure you are well supported on the night. Master of Ceremonies and crooner Paul Sheridan will judge the first heats. 6 people will go through each week to the semi finals – so get down to Revolution for the first night of the 1,000 Karaoke Competition on Thursday 7th February.

Karaoke Competition tips and advice

- Do a song that is known but not overdone in competitions- Never do a song that you don't know well, if you don't

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It's another rocker's delight at Electric Avenue this week as The Friday Club presents a full-on guitar assault with Mainline,

Saving J and Sweet Jane on 1 Feb, to kick off a month of great gigs at The Avenue which will see Cathy Davey, Future Kings Of Spain, Boss Volenti,

Stanley Super 800, Jinx Lennon, Dry County and Large Mound all making their way to John Street. The Friday Club's John Fitz is on deck duty this week so you can expect to hear plenty of alternative, punk and grunge classics before and after the live action.

Mainline have practically been adopted by US rockers Black Rebel Motorcycle Club, as they have brought the Dublin noise merchants all over the UK and Europe to

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Impressive Wins for Laura Behan and Aaron Whelan

The school cross country season opened last week with the Waterford County Schools taking place in St.Augustians. Our club athletes were busy representing their schools and enjoyed great success. Laura Behan, representing St. Declan's Community College Kilmacthomas, got her season off to winning ways with an impressive victory in the Intermediate Girls 2500m. Laura took the lead in the opening stages and held a good lead all the way to the line to come home a clear winner.

Team Silver for Laura, Lisa and Stephanie

Laura Behan was joined by club athletes Stephanie Power and Lisa Keane who won team silver for St. Declans. Stephanie produced a good run and came home in 9th position. She was closely followed by Lisa Keane in 10th who gave another titanic finish passing five athletes in the closing

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On Saturday and sunday last the All Ireland Senior Indoor Championships were in Belfast and young athletes from Ferrybank AC came home with four titles as well as two bronze medals. West Waterford Ac athletes also got among the medals with a silver and a bronze.

Kelly Again

A few weeks back in her first competition of the new year, Kelly Proper set a new Irish record in the Long Jump with a 6.25 metres. On Saturday last she bettered that bringing it to 6.28 metres and in the process retained her Irish title. Christopher Russell had a personal best in winning the 200 metres in a time of 22.16 seconds and he also set a personal best in finishing third in the 60 metres being timed at 7.02 seconds. Another 200 metres winner was Niamh Whelan in a time of 24.64

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The final of the Munster Waterford Crystal Cup took place in Templemore on Sunday last and saw the home side come through on the right side of a 3-13 to 0-13 scoreline. Really it was a deserved win for the Premier as on the day they werethoroughly on top from the start. Goals in the opening half from Lar Corbett and Eoin Kelly gave the Tipp men a

2-8 to 0-5 lead and when Eoin Kelly got his second within ten minutes of the restart, there was no way back for the Deise.

Indeed it was former Waterford All-star Eoin Kelly who kept the Deise in the game as he rifled over four points from frees in that opening thirty odd minutes but his namesake did very much the same for Tipperary.

Waterford opened the scoring in the second

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