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feature sixth generation food producers to the brand new Bilberry Goat Trust Heritage Cheese

The Bilberry goat herd near Waterford City, the species cannot be found anywhere else in the World and have been living in Waterford City for 300 years. The herd are now being put to production and producing a new to market soft goat's cheese – you can visit the herd and taste the cheese as part of the Waterford Harvest Festival Slow Food Tours - for more see waterfordharvestfestival.ie Photograph Thomas Gee

The Waterford Harvest Festival which takes place in the city from September 3 to 11, 2011 has announced a four ‘Slow Food Tours' for the festival programme, the ‘Food Tour's feature a variety of Food Producers from a sixth generation miller to a brand new Goats Cheese product from the 400 year old Bilberry Goat Herd.

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And they're off!!! The start of the family fun day 7k race held at Kill recently.

The community of Kill got together once more to provide a fantastic day packed with fun for all ages. Hosted by the Kill Cardiac First Response Group, part of the Portlaw branch of the Irish Red Cross, the first of the annual Kill 7k took place on Saturday 6th August. As soon as the doors opened to Kill Community Centre at 4pm, hundreds of participants arrived to watch or take part in the first event scheduled for the day, the Family 1k fun run. Over a 100 walkers, runners, toddlers and even the smallest children took part, with everybody emerging as winners as all children received medals on completion of the 1k track through

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Irish Water, the agency which will manage the state's water network, must spearhead a national water efficiency programme according to Kingspan Water – Ireland's water technology company.

"Too much of the debate in recent months has been about charging hard pressed consumers for water and installing water meters, and there hasn't been enough discussion about how householders can conserve water and harvest some of the millions of litres of rain water that fall in Ireland each year," said Alan Wright, Director of Kingspan Water.

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Cllr. Jim D'Arcy has advised parents to be aware of administrative changes in the Back to School Clothing and Footwear Allowance this year. He says that the process will be automated for the most part and that many people who automatically qualify will already have received a letter from the Department of Social Protection in June, telling them how and when the payment will be made. However, he points out that people who don't automatically qualify (such as those in receipt of Disability Allowance or Carer's Allowance) will need to complete an application form. "For parents who have not yet been notified, but who are entitled to payment, they should apply as soon as possible. The forms can be obtained online at welfare.ie or they can be got from local Social Welfare offices or by simply texting ‘form BTSCFA', followed

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Dragons' Eggs, Flying Fish and Roman Candles - no not a collection of clues in a riddle but just some of the names of the spectacular fireworks effects that will light up the sky over Tramore at 9.30 this Sunday night, August 21st.

Tramore Amusement Park presents its second annual Family Fun Day with a host of family activities including free face painting, balloon modelling, sweets, novelties and a few surprises

In what promises to be a wonderful family day out, the whole event will come to a climax at 9.30 with the fireworks show.

Last year a large crowd enjoyed the event and for 2011 Donal McMahon and his team from Pyrotechnics Ireland are planning an even more spectacular show.

Huge crowds are expected again this year to enjoy the day, and especially the unique atmosphere created by fireworks reach literally hundreds of

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Those long hot summer days of our childhood may be gone but some of the tastes of our youth are back thanks to Waterford woman, Fiona O'Farrell. Following in her parents footsteps, Fiona set up her own online sweet shop, PennyJellies.com in January of this year.

A former banker and textile designer, Fiona saw a gap in the market for the nostalgic confectionery of our childhood, such as Big Time Bars, Macaroon Bars and the very difficult to source, Fizzle Sticks.

The online shop, http://www.pennyjellies.com, was launched in January and is unique as it is the only Irish "corner shop" with such a large range of "Retro" confectionery online. With an definite touch of nostalgia PennyJellies.com stocks sentimental favourites such as Flogs, Wham Bars, chocolate mice, gobstoppers and flying sauces.

Fiona came up with the idea to supply the retro delights

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Five months down and the adventure continues for Fiona McCullagh from Abbeyside, Dungarvan. The DCU graduate packed her bag and headed to South Korea earlier this year to teach English as a foreign language. Accompanied by two friends, each month abroad offers new and unique experiences.

Fiona's 12 month contract is based in a school in Uiwang, south of the Korean capital, Seoul. She teaches young students English and in return the school provides her with a competitive monthly salary and free accommodation.

While news reports have described a harsh monsoon season for Korea, the area where Fiona is placed has escaped the most severe affects. She did however willingly take part in the Boryeong Mud Festival where she came across many nationalities enjoying this unique cultural event.

Fiona explains ‘In the mud area, there were bouncy slides, a pool and obstacle courses

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Rents across the country were static in the second quarter of 2011, according to the latest report published by the property website Daft.ie. In July, the average asking rent in the country was €823 per month, the same level as twelve months previously.

Rents in Dublin and Galway have remained static over the past twelve months, while they rose strongly in Cork city - by an average of 4.7%. In Waterford and Limerick cities, rents are about 2% lower than last year. Elsewhere in the country, rents are down by 2.6% on average. Commenting on the report, Ronan Lyons, Economist with Daft.ie said, "Recent years have shown a strong relationship between the number of properties available on the market and trends in rents. The total number of properties available to rent at any one time in Ireland's five major cities rose

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The Temperance Hall

I notice that one of Waterford's best known clubs, the Temperance Hall, has acquired the services of a new caretaker, who replaced Mr. Jimmy Coughlan (gone to join the great army of exiles in England), who had been for over 20 years in that onerous position. Jimmy was an expert on the care and maintenance of billiard tables, and his services were in keen demand in that capacity. There are many who miss his burly form from the precincts of the old club, some even say that the place is not the same without him. Although he was what one would call an easy going man, and was fond of fireside gossip, he kept the hall in excellent trim, and presided over the billiard tables and card games with an expert eye and unhurried capability. His

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Waterford nurses are invited to a national recruitment seminar that will bring nursing homes from across the country together to inform registered nurses of job opportunities within the sector.

Nursing Homes: Rewarding Career Opportunities is a recruitment seminar/awareness day that will be held in the D4 Hotel, Ballsbridge, Dublin on Tuesday August 23rd. Nursing Homes Ireland, the representative body for the private and voluntary nursing home

sector, has organised the event after a survey it recently carried out revealed up to 500 nursing opportunities are immediately available within the sector. The survey also found up to 1,400

nursing posts are to be created within the sector over the next 12 months and 70% of homes report difficulties in filling nursing posts.

Tadhg Daly, Nursing Homes Ireland Chief Executive Officer says: "At a time when thousands of nursing jobs have been lost and many of

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The Irish Dental Association has warned patients of the danger of many tooth whitening products saying many of them range from ‘useless to dangerous'. The Association has also expressed its concern about unsupervised tooth whitening.

The warning coincides with new plans from the European Commission to regulate the use of hydrogen peroxide, the chemical used in tooth whitening.

Under the new regulations, which should come into force next month, only fully qualified dentists will be permitted to provide this service.

Tom Feeney, IDA representative on the Council of European Dentists, and a Dublin based dentist believes regulation of the sector is long overdue and said the new measures would safeguard patient safety which is the number one priority.

‘Dentists are fully qualified to carry out a full oral examination, make a diagnosis on the basis of that examination and the patient's full dental history

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Pictured in photograph: Seated are Mary O' Connell, Cllr. Hilary Quinlan, Jimmy Walker, Chair. Back: Paddy Walsh, Alan Murphy, AM Contracting, Nicky O'Brien, Ella, , Patsy Sheridan, Billy Connors, Chris Chapman, Frank Fox & Associates, Brendan White, Ken Wigham (All graveyard committee except Alan Murphy, Chris Chapman, Deputy Mayor, Ella Ryan, Ken Wigham).

Have you noticed that scaffolding has recently been erected around Ballinaneeshagh Church in Killotteran? This has been constructed in order to facilitate repair and restoration work to the roof of the church.

The repair work is necessary to waterproof the roof and stop rain leaking into the inside of the church. The roof repair and renovation will also improve the appearance of the building. The works include the realignment and replacement of brackets, rafters and guttering. The

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HeadsUp, Rehab's mental health promotion project, is advising young people that there is life after the State exams and to realise that the exams represent just one avenue to reaching a career. HeadsUp recognises that some young people may be anxious at the moment as they await their Leaving Certificate results on Wednesday (17 August), however, it is important to remember that there is a range of options available to everyone after they receive their results.

Collette Ryan, Rehab Project Manager for HeadsUp, acknowledges that this can be a very difficult time for exam students. "Results time can be very stressful for young people as it is a day of mixed emotions. Many feel powerless as there is nothing that they can do now to change their results. We want students to know that help is out there if things are

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Calor have launched a Home Energy Grant for Waterford homeowners, which is designed to run in parallel with the Government's Better Energy retrofitting programme launched in April of this year.

There are over 600,000 homes in rural Ireland that cannot access the natural gas network. By choosing Calor, rural dwellers can have gas delivered to a bulk storage tank at their home. The tank can now even be placed underground as required. This means that rural homeowners can have gas regardless of where they live.

To coincide with the Home Energy Grant launch, Calor are also introducing a new One-Stop-Shop service. A first of its kind in the Irish market, this service is designed to make it easier for homeowners to make the switch from oil to cleaner, more energy efficient, Liquefied Petroleum Gas (LPG).1

In the past, switching heating system was a

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– AA poll results Additional tolls on Dublin's M50 and on other routes around the country would cause extensive traffic congestion on alternative routes, according to the AA.

An AA survey of over 13,000 Irish motorists shows that 60.9% of drivers would change their route to avoid a new toll if one were applied. The results show that proposals for new tolls on the M50 would do much more harm than good because they would cause additional traffic to avoid the motorway and re-congest suburbs like Sandyford, Dundrum and Blanchardstown instead.

"To apply a toll on the entire length of the M50 would be an act of traffic planning madness." Says Director of Policy Conor Faughnan. "Tolls cause traffic to divert. This is a simple fact of life that neither the government nor the NRA can ignore. To apply a toll to

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