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A MAN who refused to pay a €150 litter fine has found his bill for the offence has increased massively to €2,200 after he was ordered to pay it - plus costs and charges after an appeal to the Circuit Court. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

A WATERFORD man who nearly lost his elbow in a skatepark accident has settled his action in the High Court. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

A WOMAN with 193 previous convictions has been jailed for one year for laundering over €24,000. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

A MAN with 10,800 images and 1,100 movies of child sex abuse at home on his computer hard-drive has avoided jail. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

A BISHOP has warned parents about 'an extremely dangerous paedophile' who lives about 150 metres from a primary school. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

AT least one Irish politician is off to Korea! [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

THE Garda Ombudsman is investigating a 'head-on' collision between a Garda patrol car and a people-carrier which overturned. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

A FORMER law student 'forgot' he made up to 20 accident and other claims but only disclosed a portion of these to the Injuries Assessment Board when making his latest one, a court heard. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

A CATHOLIC bishop has doubled down on his suggestion that the HPV vaccination could encourage promiscuity in young women. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

A MAN has told a court he suffered 'tor-ture' a result of late-night music from a public house. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

AS many as 20 children and four staff were lucky to escape uninjured when a driver lost control of a car and crashed her vehicle into a pre-school room. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

WATERFORD selector Dan Shanahan has declared that he will join legendary hurler John Mullane in riding horseback naked through the city if the Déise beat Galway in tomorrow's All-Ireland Hurling final. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

A PEDESTRIAN lost his life after he was struck by a car in Galway. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

A MAN who was the subject to a nationwide hunt following an appeal on RTÉ's Crimecall for impersonating a detective and stealing from the elderly has been jailed for 20 months. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

A MOTORIST has had his latest personal injury claim dismissed after a judge agreed that he deliberately stopped or slowed his car in front of a driver on a dual carriageway. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

TWO men appeared in court yesterday charged in connection with the alleged robbery of a shop owned by the Amish community in Waterford. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

TRAGIC mother of four Samantha Walsh 'was deprived of so many future possibilities', mourners at her funeral heard yesterday. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

A BISHOP broke down in tears yesterday as he pleaded to those hurt by religious orders: 'I would just say to you - if you are listening - I just hope you find healing, you know?' Bishop Alphonsus Cullinan, of Waterford and Lismore, said the Catholic Church, including the Bon Secours order that ran the Tuam Mother and Baby Home, 'did terribly wrong' to vulnerable people. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

THE case of a boy who died from a drugs overdose left 'too many unanswered questions', a coroner told the teenager's family at his inquest yesterday. New Ross teenager Shane Cotton, formerly of Priory Court in the Co. Wexford town, was 16 when he was living with others in Waterford where he took ill before his death. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

TALKTALK workers booked into today's staff party in England who fail to turn up may have to pay for the flight and other charges, it has emerged. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

By Ciaran Murphy THEY drew gasps of admiration as they arrived in Waterford over the past four days, but nothing compared with the sight of 45 Tall Ships sailing together out of the quays and along the River Suir yesterday. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

A MAN believed to have been assaulted on his way home from a party on Christmas Night has died - while another man was last night being held for questioning. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

ONE of the three people killed in a road crash in Waterford earlier this month was laid to rest yesterday, while the funeral service of another victim will be held tomorrow. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

A MOTHER of three has told a court how she felt 'intimidated' and 'scared' after a man allegedly followed and beset her over a 20-month period. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

A PRIEST thought he would have his ears chopped off during a knifepoint raid on his parochial house, he told a jury yesterday. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

TWO teenagers were being held for questioning last night over a row that led to a student being stabbed. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

VICTIMS of sports coach Bill Kenneally bravely waived their anonymity yesterday to speak about their ordeal - as he was put behind bars for 14 years and two months for abusing ten boys. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

A MEMBER of a Fianna Fáil dynasty boasted of his political connections, telling a boy he abused that 'you would not believed', a court heard. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

A COURT has been told of the terror a pensioner experienced during and after two men burst into her home. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

A BOY was recovering in hospital from his injuries after being savaged by a dog that was roaming in Waterford city all Monday. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

A BOY was recovering in hospital from his injuries after being savaged by a dog that was roaming in Waterford city all Monday. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

A MAN who made a false complaint to the gardaí about being sexually assaulted by Bus Éireann driver has walked free from court. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

A DERANGED driver who ignored a Garda checkpoint and rammed and injured a hero garda received a partly suspended sentence yesterday. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

A SCHOOLS worker has gone on trial accused of charging VEC accounts for sailing lessons, a bouncy castle and a day's carting for her son's 21st birthday. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

A DRUNK driver caught trying to add water to his urine sample at a Garda station was banned from driving for two years at a court sitting. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

A SINN Féin councillor and his neighbour were involved in 'stupidity of the highest order' in a row about overhanging trees, a court heard. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

ALMOST 1,700 former Waterford Crystal workers are set to benefit from a pensions deal after the firm's collapse left them with nothing. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

A MAN was being held for questioning after a woman was stabbed to death in a Waterford psychiatric hospital last night. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

HUNDREDS turned out yesterday to pay their respects at the funeral mass of a hero scout and climber 'married to the mountains' who died in a climbing tragedy last week. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

A MAN who once saved his brother's life in a mountain accident has died in a fall on Europe's highest peak. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

THE case of a man's sudden death has been referred by gardaí to the Garda Síochana Ombudsman Commission after allegations against gardaí came to light earlier this week. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

A POPULAR rally driver was killed when his car skidded more than 27 metres and crashed into a wall, an inquest heard. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

A COUNCILLOR whose expenses have been reported to the gardaí has insisted that he has tried to pay back the money. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

THE funeral of a young man whose loyal dog stayed by his side as he lay dying on a beach will take place today. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

SUCCESSIVE governments have let the fishing industry down, according to the cousin of three brothers who tragically drowned while fishing in June. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

THE distraught parents of a toddler who drowned at a beach last week buried him yesterday - on the fourth anniversary of their baby daughter's death. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

FOUR fishermen were rescued from the sea yesterday after their boat capsized in the same area where three men lost their lives in June. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

IRISH emigrant soldiers hanged after switching sides in the 19th century Mexican-American War are to be honoured today by a trust created in memory of John F Kennedy. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]