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GAA Coaching Information Night

Last Wednesday 20th Feb in Lawlor's Hotel the annual Coaching and Games Development Information Night took place. This is the 4th year of the information night where clubs receive information on the Coaching and Games Development programme for the year along with information on grants available to clubs for various projects such as club/school liaison and Hurley/Helmet subsidies.

Speaking at the event new Coaching Officer Pat Grant thanked all the clubs for the continued good work they are doing to promote our national games for young children. Pat also acknowledged the work and cooperation of the schools and teachers of the county both Primary and Post Primary for the work they are doing and the ongoing facilitation of GPO's and club coaches providing coaching classes for children. Pat thanked the County Board, Bord na nOg for their

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Closing the door on another season of National Basketball AOL Broadband Waterford played their last league game of this season in the WIT Sports Hall on Saturday night last. Having done well in the National Senior Cup getting to the semi final stage before getting knocked out by the eventual winners UCD they failed to reproduce the same form in the league. The team will have to put in a lot of hard work and also look for a few new recruits if they are to have a change in their fortunes next season.

AOL Broadband

Waterford 63

St. Brendan's Tralee 89

This was a game that had all the hallmarks of a top v bottom tie, St Brendan's top of the league and heading for next weekends play offs and AOL Broadband playing their final national league game of the season.

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Enright EuroSpar Winter League

The Gents Winter League quarter finals have now concluded, and the 8 qualifying teams are reduced to the following 4; H (Michael Kelly's) G (Mossie Walsh's) N (Pat Breen's) and F (Paul O'Riordan's). This coming weekend teams will face off against each other as follows; H v G, N v F. Teams must list their players in order of handicap (winter handicap if cut) and play 'head to head' against their opposite player (lowest handicap opposite lowest, 2nd lowest against 2nd lowest etc). The format is stableford points over the weekend (Thurs. to Sun. inclusive) and players must be in the Club 16 hole Competition. If 2 teams are level on 'head to heads', the result will be decided by the total score of the teams. The final is to be played on 8th March.

Ladies

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This week the HOOPER DOOLAN FINANCIAL winter league was cancelled due to frost. We are now in i's third round and a record number of ladies are out there competing. Progress of play will be posted on Notice Boards next week. Keep playing ladies - the last competitions are getting very interesting.

Golf Rules & Information night

A Rules of Golf & Information Nightwill be held at the Club House on Wednesday 12th March at 7.30pm. It will be hosted by M. J. Murphy G.U.I. and Deirdre Brennan P.G. A. Professional. All are welcome to attend.

Open Singles

Our Open Singles Competition runs each Friday from 9:30 - 12.:30. Rate is Members €12 Visitors €30 including a Grill after your round of golf.

Open Singles Friday 22nd of February 2008

1st John Harrison (10) 41 pts. 2nd Richard Mc Donald (10) 39 pts c/b. 3rd Eddie

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The Daft.ie Rental report for the final quarter of 2007 has found that Waterford has had the lowest increase in rents among the five Irish cities with an increase of just 5.9%, which is below the average increase of six per cent nationwide.

The report by the property website, which was published last week, records a levelling off in rental rates across the country with a 50% increase in the number of properties on the rental market contributing to what it calls a 'stagnation' in rents.

The report also cites increases being their lowest in over three years.

However, the cities of Waterford, Limerick and Cork are well above the rest of Munster with the other counties and county areas in the province averaging just a three per cent increase in rents, well below the rate of inflation.

In response

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Waterford's Minister, Martin Cullen, TD, has welcomed funding of almost €24 million for Waterford City and County under the Government's 2008 Regional and Local Roads Programme announced on 15 February 2008.

Minister Martin Cullen TD said: "Waterford County Council has been allocated a total of €16,276,650 including €2,530,000 in specific improvement grants to allow for the realignment of the Gold Coast Road and work to progress on the important artery which is the Clonea Access Road." The Minister continued: "Under the strategic regional roads category, €2,835,000 has been assigned specifically for the Airport Road to facilitate the further improvement of one of our busiest link roads in the South East. Waterford Airport in itself is a key element of the transport infrastructure in the region and has a vital role to play in fostering balanced regional development. Improvements to this

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The latest figures from the Joint National Listenership Survey (JNLR) show that Waterford Radio Station, WLR FM, has fallen in the last two months after gains made through much of 2007.

In terms of listener figures, WLR is down two per cent to 49% compared with the previous two months while their market share is down nearly two and a half per cent to 45% from the JNLR/TNS MRBI findings.

WLR FM still remain as one of the top five listened to local stations in the country behind Shannonside/Northern Sound FM, Limerick's Live 95 FM and Highland Radio.

In reaction to the figures, WLR FM Managing Director, Des Whelan, told Waterford Today Newspaper that he was quite happy with the figures considering that his station was up in percentage terms for the year as a whole.

Mr. Whelan also said

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Students of the Nemeton/WIT Higher Diploma in Television Production have just wrapped on the first week of shooting for 5 new exciting and diverse documentaries. The shooting schedule for the documentaries had students on location in Dublin, Tipperary and Waterford in the past week. Shooting next week will bring them to the scenic surroundings of Connemara in Galway where they will film scenes for Feachtas na mBóithre. This documentary investigates the road tax crisis in Galway during the 1980's, a topical issue which saw 5 people put in jail for taking a stand. The other documentaries cover an array of subjects from Irelands very own Robin Hood to Dungarvan's most famous greyhound, Master McGrath.

The capital city was a buzz with the budding directors, producers and editors last week as the students descended on many of Dublins hotspots to shoot

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Mycustomer.ie the Waterford based sales and customer loyalty solutions provider has announced new jobs expansion in its Waterford division. Mycustomer.ie has experienced unprecedented growth since its inception in June 2007, with employee numbers in Waterford growing to 50 plus. The organisation has also expanded its site in Waterford with an investment of over €150,000 in telecommunications technology. Its Clonmel division has also developed a further 4,000 sq feet to its purpose built contact centre.

The company has clearly identified a market for the delivery of premium customer loyalty and professional sales solutions.

Commenting on the recent success Mervyn O'Callaghan CEO of Mycustomer.ie has stated "The benefit of what we provide is the accessibility of sales and marketing professionals to the SME market on a campaign and ongoing basis. We have key professionals that aid SME's in turning their customer base into

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Beat 102-103's Jennifer Allen won a 'New Adventures in Broadcasting' award from the Broadcasting Commission of Ireland (BCI) for her programme, 'Romancing Paddy Poleski', when she collected the award in a ceremony in Dublin last Saturday.

Jennifer Allen, who researched, edited and presented the programme, won the award in the 'innovation' category and when asked by Waterford Today Newspaper if this would boost her career in radio even further, she replied: "I don't know about that but it's nice for Beat to receive the award..because we put in a lot of work."

The Beat journalist also told Waterford Today that it was suggested by station Chief Executive, Gabrielle Cummins and Head of News, Gail Conway to put in an application for BCI funding to make the programme series but that after getting the funding, she had to put the ideas into practice

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ICSA president Malcolm Thompson has called for a concerted effort by EU governments to stand up for agricultural viability in Europe, given the very ominous tone of the latest WTO proposals.

"It's make your mind up time for EU Governments. The decision they must face up to is do they want a viable European agriculture or do they want to put the quality food supply in jeopardy and risk scarcity of key commodities. That is the stark reality of conceding to a deal that will put thousands of EU beef and lamb producers out of business," he warned.

Mr Thompson made his comments today (Monday) as EU farm ministers gather for the monthly Farm Council meeting. "The latest draft issued by WTO agriculture chairman, Crawford Falconer, is totally unbalanced and, in fact, demonstrates that the EU negotiator Peter Mandelson is making

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Waterford's clubs, societies, international communities and business public urged to enter this year's St Patrick's Day Parade on March 17th.

With less than a month to go to Waterford's St Patrick's Day parade on March 17th, the organisers have appealed to those interested in taking part in the festivities to get their application forms back before the February 22 deadline.

Plans and preparations for this year's bumper parade are continuing at pace and it's gearing up to be the best ever street spectacle in the city. Clubs, societies, community groups and businesses intending to take part are asked to get their entries in now.

And others interested in taking part but who do not have application forms are encouraged to download them by logging on to Waterford City Council's website, www.waterfordcity.ie,

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It seems that every time a business person reads an article about the environment or energy waste or going green it's just another way of increasing their costs and reducing their bottom line. Waterford City Enterprise Boards Green Business Workshop does exactly the opposite!

Most companies are unaware that the true cost of energy & waste to their business is typically 8-10% of turnover. Undertaking a structured energy & waste minimisation programme will not only save money, but will also improve the environment, your profile and competitiveness.

This one-day introductory course is designed to show business owners and managers how to implement simple, low cost ways to reduce their energy & waste bills, explained in simple easy to understand language. On completing this one day workshop every participant will save money by being able to read an energy bill and understand energy

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The contribution of thousands of Irish people to the work of Ireland's biggest aid agency, Concern, has been acknowledged by the President at a packed reception in Áras an Uachtaráin.

President McAleese welcomed almost 200 staff members - past and present, fundraisers and supporters of the Concern Debates from all over Ireland as well as the founding members of the organisation at the event marking Concern's 40th anniversary.

Ann Cummins from Dungarvan was among the guests from across the country who attended.Ann Cummins began her involvement with Concern in 1972. She was working in AIB when she heard an ad on the radio asking people to become volunteers in the developing world with Concern. Within weeks she had moved to Bangladesh where she then lived for three years. Over the following twenty years she worked for Concern in Kenya, Uganda, Tanzania, Burundi,

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Waterford Boat Club (WBC) recently travelled to St. Michaels Head of the River in its first competition of 2008. This event is held annually at the town of O'Briens Bridge in Co. Limerick.

This year, however, the venue was moved to the National Rowing Centre (NRC) in Co. Cork due to the flooded conditions in Limerick caused by the recent unfavourable weather conditions. The event typically attracts the largest entry of any rowing event on the Irish racing, so the challenge in taking victory here would be immense for the WBC crews. Heads of the River are a time trial event where each boat races over a course of set length, in this case 3.5 km, and the fastest time of the day claims victory. This can be very challenging as the athletes do not have the competition in sight to

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