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The festivities on WLR FM start on Christmas Eve when WLR FM will link up with Santa Claus from 3pm. He will be speaking to the children of Waterford just before he leaves the North Pole for his annual worldwide tour of duty!

Later that evening, Christmas Eve Mass will be broadcast live at 9pm from the Cathedral of the Most Holy Trinity in Waterford city where the chief celebrant will be the Bishop of Waterford & Lismore, Dr William Lee.

On Christmas Day, wake up to 'WLR fm's Christmas Breakfast Blaa', a special edition of the hugely popular breakfast show which will run from 7-10am. Presenter Domhnall Breatnach will be talking to the many excited children from across the city and county about how generous Santa was to them plus the show will feature all of your favourite Christmas songs!

At 10am,

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Word of Mouth Agency presents The Certain Three 2012 Tour featuring Katie Kim, The Lost Brothers and Puzzle Muteson in the Theatre Royal on Saturday 21st January.

Now in its third year, the Certain Three Tour returns in January 2012 for a ten date run. The creation of Irish based booking agency Word of Mouth, the idea is to feature three acts each with something different to offer and send them out as a triple bill with an alternating running order. The two previous tours have featured O Emperor, We Cut Corners, Alessi's Ark and The Ambience Affair amongst others. Carefully chosen for the 2012 tour are three acts that have created a significant stir during 2011- Katie Kim, The Lost Brothers and Puzzle Muteson.

This fantastic not to be missed gig is on in the Theatre Royal on Saturday 21st January

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BRASS is a two part radio documentary on the Barrack Street Concert Band. Written and produced by playwright, Jim Nolan, and edited by Wayne Browne, Brass will be broadcast on WLRfm at 11am on December 29th and 30th

The Barrack Street Concert Band has been making music in Waterford since its formation in 1870 in the Mount Sion Christian Brothers School on Barrack Street. For more than 140 years the band has contributed richly to the cultural and social life of Waterford, an enduring presence in the ever-changing narrative of the ancient city.

In return for that contribution, the band has staked a permanent place in the affections of the people of Waterford. At grand civic and religious gatherings, on key sporting occasions, on the bandstands of Ballybricken and The People's Park,

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Waterford's Wednesday night trad/folk session saw a gathering of some of our finest musicians with Paul Grant on guitar, Richie Mac on bass and Gerry Madden on madolin.

Dylan Bible dropped in to play some soft slide guitar and later Tommy Keating treated us to some tunes on the flute and a haunting tune on the uilleann pipes.

An English chap aske me if all the bars are like this? "No" I replied, this is fairly special! Come down and you won't be disappointed, believe me.

We welcome Susan O'Neill's first proper Murphy's bar gig on Thursday 22nd. Susan has wowed audiences throughout the whole country over with her range of songs which vary from modern to old classics. Starts 9pm.

On Friday 23rd not one but three live tributes enter Murphy's Bar Sliver (Nirvana) Rockets to Russia (Ramones) and Damo Grant and Co

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O EMPEROR + KATIE KIM + SOLAR TAXI

After a hugely successful headline tour last April and a summer of wowing music festival audiences at home (Electric Picnic, Tall Ships) and abroad (SXSW, Benicassim, London Feis with Bob Dylan), O Emperor are back to (below) headline a special end of year concert at The Forum on 28th, December. The gig will see the band premiere much of their brand new material as well as highlights from their highly successful debut Hither Thither, which was released in October 2010 and subsequently nominated for the Choice Music Prize (Irish Album of the Year).

The Forum concert will be a fantastic showcase for original music talent from Waterford as Katie Kim (right) and Solar Taxi also feature on the bill. Tickets (?15) are on sale now at Next Door (Forum Waterford), 051 871111 and

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After an amazing sold out Traffik Club gig back in May, And So I Watch You From Afar return to the Forum on Friday, 30th December, for their own headline show with a full supporting cast. This special end of year gig is actually more like a "mini-festival" with Rarely Seen Above Ground (R.S.A.G) playing as special guests and Toby Kaar and The Great Ocean Divide also on the bill. Tickets (?15) are on sale now at Next Door (Forum Waterford), 051 871111 and http://www.forumwaterford.com

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From appearances at SXSW, Eurosonic, Electric Picnic, Reading/Leeds, Indiependence, Pukkelpop and Sonisphere, to tour dates in Europe, North America and Russia, plus a support slot for rock supergroup, Them Crooked Vultures, ASIWYFA have been on the road playing music non-stop since the

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Luminous Live presents their Christmas special, hosted by a stellar line-up, providing a diverse mix of entertainment this Thursday in Sal's Bar, The Quay. Speakeasy are delighted to welcome, in no particular order, The Speakeasy Carollers, Sweatshop Baby Jesus, Michael miXile Shanahan, Damien Tubritt, Megan Nolan and Phad Hennessy.

Please arrive before 9m to ensure you reap the full benefits of this Christmas Special Speakeasy, it'll be one to remember!

Doors: 8pm.

Entry: free before 9pm, €3 after.

Mulled wine: €2/glass

On Friday, 23rd December, Yachtrock residents Alan Coady & Gavin Boyce are joined by their good friends from Re:Publik, Paul Mac, Warren Sauvage & Kenno, in aid of the WLRfm Lions Club Christmas Appeal. The gig takes place in The Loft @ Crystal Nightclub, admission is only €5 with all proceeds going to the charity.

Then, on St.Stephen's night, Yachtrock celebrate what can only be

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Buy Local – More needs to be done to Support Small Businesses

TaxAssist Accountants, Ireland and the UK's leading accountancy and taxation service for small businesses, are championing a Buy Local campaign aimed at encouraging consumers and local businesses to come together and support each other during the economic downturn.

Local accountant, Marie Doody explains "We feel strongly about supporting local small businesses that need the right levels of assistance. We are advising businesses to manage their cash flow correctly and giving further recession beating tips."

TaxAssist Accountants is also supplying small businesses that have visible premises with free window stickers in order to send the message out to the general public. Marie Doody who has been speaking to local retailers over the past number of weeks has found the response on the ground has been overwhelmingly positive and commented "It is evident

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The "Get Ireland Online" programme is part of the Benefit 3 Scheme which has awarded €1.88 for 20 training projects run by community and voluntary groups and not-for-profit organisations across Ireland and aims to upskill 40,000 people. As part of this scheme, Access I.T. Ltd, Parish Centre, Ballybeg, Waterford will ensure 150 people are certified with basic IT skills to prevent them from mission our on opportunities most people now take for granted in Waterford.

Participants will be taught how to make use of the web, send email, use internet telephone service like Skype and do shopping and digital photography during five 2 hour classes for €10. Everybody will benefit from this training, but it is especially suitable for unemployed people, disadvantaged groups and anyone lacking in basic computer skills. The Benefit 3 programme aims to ensure that no one is

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Christmas handicap finals

The finals of our Christmas handicap has just finished and once again, the handicap scoring system provided some excellent games. Starting with the C section, Majellla Dunphy made great progress to make the final only to lose out to Lawrence "La" Walsh in the plate, and in the proper, it was great to see two up and coming players contest a very sporting game which saw Conor Friend come out on top in a very close game with Jimmy Morrissey.

In the B section, Colm Morrissey was up against it playing Jack Molloy who recently had success in Cork winning his division in the Munster Open, however on the night Colm had a good win and was victorious winning 3 games to 0.

In the over 50 section Robbie Sullivan is making a habit of winning, this was two in

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Christmas wish list

With Christmas upon us and training halted for the festive period, it's time to take a look at the Waterford Vikings Basketball clubs Christmas wish list. We are halfway through the current season and now each team has a good idea of their strengths and also an idea of the areas in which they need to improve. One thing that the club aims to do is to teach all players to be able to read a game themselves and to figure out for themselves what is going right or wrong and to be able to think about this while they are playing. To this end the club has released a parody of a famous Christmas song that aims to teach the fundamentals of basketball!

The 12 Days of Christmas has become the 12 Rules of Basketball! You can imagine

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On Wednesday December 28 th with a 12 noon start the Annual Baldy Man 8 km run is on Tramore Beach and adjoining area and entries will be taken on the day from 10.30 am at "The Majestic Hotel", the proceeds this year go to the Laura Lynn Foundation. On St Stephen's Day there's a 4 miles Road Race in Clonmel at 12 noon, entries on the day from 10.30 am at Clonmel Vocational School, The Mall.

St Stephen's Day Jolly Jaunt

In association with Dungarvan G.A.A. club West Waterford AC have thei annual St.Stephen's day walk and run from the G.A.A. club house at 11am. The distance is five miles, the proceeds from the run will be donated to a worthy charity The entry fee is at your own discretion and it is hoped that as many as possible will turn on

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Another Christmas is upon us and frightening to think how quickly the festive seasons pass. Indeed as one gets older it appears the twelve months just gets more and more congested with one fading into another. However much we reminisce we must still just get on with it.

Last weekend saw the culmination of field activity in the county with the final game of the year, a senior football relegation playoff between city outfit St Saviours and Ballinameela who themselves made the leap from Intermediate just two short years ago. This looked on paper a titanic battle. Ballinameela who recently annexed the County Junior Hurling title and represented the county in the Provincial club championship, up against St Saviours who themselves had a very impressive win over Kilrossanty in the Senior Football Phelan Cup final. Yes indeed, all the hallmarks of

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Season's greetings

On behalf of the club I would like to wish all our members and followers a very Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year.

New Sponsor

We would like to welcome on board Philip Egan Wholesale Meats into our family of sponsors. Philip has kindly sponsored a new set of jerseys for our Under 16 team. Philip's business is located in the Westside Business Park, Old Kilmeaden Road. We can't emphasise how important sponsors are in the times that we are in, and on behalf of the club, thanks to all our sponsors for your continued support.

Juvenile AGM

The Juvenile AGM took place last Wednesday at 8pm in the club. We had a good turn out as normal for such an important event. Chairman Peter Walsh extended his welcome to Club Chairman and Secretary, Sean O'Dwyer and Seamus Cleere. Sean Spoke briefly

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Hurler of the Year Award

At last week's County Convention Kevin Moran was announced as Waterford hurler of the year for 2011. Congratulations to Kevin on this award. Kevin produced some wonderful displays for club and county during the year including official man of the match performances against Clarinbridge and Galway. All in De La Salle are delighted that Kevin's performances were recognised in the county. A well deserved honour.

Christmas Night Fundraiser

An end of year social will be held in the Granville Hotel on 30th December at 7.30pm. The night will consist of a 3 course meal and is an opportunity for all club members to meet up over the festive period. A night of music, laughter and craic is guaranteed. At €15 the night represents great value. Dress code is smart casual. Tickets are now available and can be got

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