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On September 21st Waterford City Enterprise Board will conduct a FREE Idea Generation Programme. Do you have a business idea and as yet are unsure whether or not it will work? Would you like to be your own boss but you cannot come up with a business idea? Are you not sure what to do … Continued

Jackie Hoyne at her Blackberry Café in Thomastown, Co. Kilkenny. Jackie was diagnosed with stage 3 Advanced Breast Cancer in December 2009. Jackie was admitted for treatment on the 14th January 2010. The Solas centre was recommended by the liaison nurse on the ward. Having cancer was terrifying but she repressed the powerful emotions and … Continued

Home Instead Senior Care will put the kettle on and host a coffee morning to raise funds for the Waterford Hospice Movement on Thursday, September 15th. All of the funds raised on the morning will go towards the provision of hospice care for patients in Waterford and the South East. Waterford Hospice Movement provides palliative … Continued

Geraldine Grant was announced as the overall winner of Waterford’s Home Instead Senior Care’s CAREGiver of the Year awards. Geraldine will now go on to represent Waterford in the national final which will take place at the Home Instead Senior Care National convention on Saturday, 8th October. Geraldine has cared for over 30 Home Instead … Continued

From the Irish Examiner – August 26th, 2011 Tuning up: Kim Kelly from France, Ciara Kelly from Dunmore East, Co. Waterford, John Waldron from Dunmore East and Elijah Kelly from France, at Dunmore East in preparation for the Bluegrass festival this weekend. (Pic: Mary Browne) The 17th Guinness Dunmore East International Bluegrass Festival will feature … Continued

The Waterford Harvest Festival takes place from September 3rd to September 11th and features a packed itinerary celebrating Waterford’s rich and diverse culinary heritage. Over 9 jam-packed days, visitors to the city and locals will be able to enjoy food markets, taste workshops, cookery demonstrations by celebrity chefs, street parties and open air picnics. 2011’s … Continued

Jim Power lives in Ard Na Greine in Waterford City and is an ardent supporter of the Solas Centre. This is following the “enormous” help the Solas Centre gave him when he was diagnosed with cancer. At first Jim coped by himself and kept up a front but soon found that this was not working … Continued

Based in the Riverstown Business Park in Tramore, Co. Waterford Partyworld is owned by the Acheson family and has been supplying costumes to kids and adults for every occasion for the last five years. Party World, spread out over 5,000 sq. ft., is the South East’s leading supplier of fancy dress costumes and party accessories. … Continued