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Recruitment : Head of Enterprise

The Head of Enterprise is a senior role within the broad Economic Development function of the Local Authority. The Head of Enterprise will lead a team charged with delivering a high standard quality system of coordinated and cohesive State support to the micro and small business sector. They will work to ensure an ‘enterprise-friendly’ city and county for companies and individuals setting up or expanding their businesses and will lead a team to support enterprise and economic development.

This is a key position within the Local Enterprise Office (LEO) structure of the Local Authority. The successful candidate will be required to make a significant contribution to the development and implementation of a strategic plan to support enterprise, entrepreneurship and job creation at a local level. Success will be measured by ensuring that the LEO serves as a First Stop Shop to provide services to start grow and develop micro and small business in Waterford.

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– Information Booklet

By Waterford City & County Council

Scoláireachtaí Gaeltachta ar fáil


Tá áthas ar Chomhairle Cathrach & Contae Phort Láirge agus Coiste Dhún Garbhán le Gaeilge a fhógairt go mbeidh Scoláireachtaí Gaeltachta ar fáil do dhaltaí meánscoile ó Phort Láirge.

Más mian leat freastal ar chúrsa coicíse i gColáiste na Rinne, i gceartlár na Gaeltachta an samhraidh seo, is féidir foirmeacha iarratais a fháil ó Chomhairle Cathrach & Contae Phort Láirge.

Chun a thuilleadh eolais faoi na Scoláireachtaí Gaeltachta a fháil, déan teagmháil le Máire Seó Breathnach, Oifigeach Gaeilge ar 058 22001 nó r-phost: msbreathnach@waterfordcouncil.ie.

Is é an dáta deiridh d’iarratais ná an Aoine, 28 Aibreán.

Waterford City & County Council and the Dún Garbhán le Gaeilge Committee are delighted to announce Gaeltacht Scholarships for second level students from Waterford.

If you’d like to attend a two-week course at Coláiste na Rinne, in the heart of the Gaeltacht this summer, application forms are available from Waterford City and County Council.

To find out more about the Gaeltacht Scholarships call Máire Seó Breathnach, Irish Officer on 058 22001 or e-mail: msbreathnach@waterfordcouncil.ie.

Closing date for applications is Friday, April 28th.

 

By Waterford City & County Council

‘A Survey of the Landscape’ Exhibition

‘A Survey of the Landscape’ Exhibition to feature over 60 drawings and paintings from the Waterford Art Collection

An exciting new exhibition ‘A Survey of the Landscape’ will be launched on May 4th and run until November 4th at The Waterford Gallery of Art in O’Connell Street.

‘A Survey of the Landscape’ focuses on how the environment has been captured, depicted, and reframed by artists, and will feature works by some of Ireland’s most renowned artists including Mary Swanzy HRHA, Seán Keating PPRHA, William Conor RHA PPRUA, Eileen Murray, Paul Henry RHA, Dermod O’Brien PPRHA, Bea Orpen HRHA, Donald Teskey RHA and more.

The exhibition will also launch two new exciting commissions for the gallery.  Supported by Creative Ireland, visual artist Paula Barrett has developed a series of three photographic images as part of her Turf Projects series.  A graduate of the National College of Art and Design (Dublin) Barrett centres her work on the theme of Landscape and the systems which inform our experience of it.

In 2015 she initiated Turf Projects, a photographic study of the particular qualities of light and colour experienced in the Irish Landscape.  She has been compiling a catalogue of Irish colour palettes from around Ireland and alongside her photographic palettes she has created a set of paints and worked with communities in Cork and Roscommon to put these colours back into the landscape, drawing attention to the natural features of these areas and promoting a specificity and harmony between the natural landscape and the built environment.  Barrett says, “The historical genre of landscape painting is the primary reference point for my work. I am interested in place-making and perception of place, the crossover between the wild and domestic.”

The exhibition will also feature a new immersive artwork artist, Waterford native Carmel Cleary, who studied photography at the Crawford College of Art & Design in Cork.  Since graduating in 1990 Cleary has received many awards including Photographer of the Year in her graduating class.

Cleary notes, “Nature fascinates and inspires me. Rock, which appears solid and immobile, is shaped and softened as water insistently carves a pathway for itself.

“Boundaries are overstepped.  As I photograph nature it is framed by my interpretation and echoes human sensuality.”

Recent generous donations of artworks will be included as highlights of the exhibition.  The Friends of the National Collection of Ireland (FNCI) have acquired for the gallery ‘The Coulin’, c.1930s, painted by Waterford based artist, Robert Burke.  The FNCI, founded in 1924, have been long standing supporters of the gallery and its collection and The Waterford Gallery of Art is extremely grateful to FNCI, and in particular FCNI Council Member, Dr Bulbulia.

Artform Dunmore East will also present to the collection a significant new artwork, ‘Parchment Tree 5’ (2018) by artist Michael Wann.  Born in Dublin in 1969, Wann lives and works in Co. Sligo, gaining his BA in Fine Art from Sligo Institute of Technology.  Wann’s work is specifically drawing-based and often featuring masterful charcoal mark-making techniques to depict the surrounding natural environment.

Joan and Roger Johnson and Newtown School (the historic foundation of the Waterford Art Collection) very kindly donated a fascinating map of the city of Waterford created in 1948, also by artist Robert Burke.

‘A Survey of the Landscape’ takes place from May 4th to November 4th 2023.

The Waterford Gallery of Art is open to the public from Wednesday to Saturday 10am-5pm, and admission is free.

-ENDS-

Images: Works by artists Paula Barrett, Michael Wann, Geoffrey Nelson and Robert Burke

By Waterford City & County Council

Waterford Farm Labourers Strike Seminar

Waterford Commemorations Committee will host a seminar on May 4th in the Park Hotel, Dungarvan to mark the Farm Labourers’ strike of 100 years ago in 1923. 

The seminar is free of charge and registration is through https://www.eventbrite.ie/e/waterford-and-the-farm-labourers-strike-tickets-619081899627

The seminar will be followed by launch of the Waterford Commemorations Website Waterford1916to1923.ie and a GIS story Map detailing events and casualties of the Civil War in Waterford.  

This event is funded by the Department of Tourism, Culture, Arts, Gaeltacht, Sport and Media under the Decade of Centenaries Programme.

By Waterford City & County Council

Waterford and the Farm Labourers’ Strike 1923

“Inciendiarism in Waterford”

Waterford City and County Council will be holding a free half day conference on the Farm Labourers Strike on Thursday 4th May at the Park Hotel in Dungarvan. In 1923 Waterford was in a volatile state. Strikes were called, soviets announced, curfews in place and battle lines were drawn. The strikes in 1923 were the culmination of increasing efforts to improve conditions and terms for labourers on the part of the Trade Unions and the determination of the Waterford Farmers Union to ensure its members held firm in their stance that “It is not a generous wage, but it is as much as the industry can stand”.

This conference explores the Farm Labourers’ Strike in the wider context of the labour movement, looks at the strikes in relation to the Irish Revolution and explores the role of the Free State Army and the path taken by the new Irish Free State in its early days in relation to this attempt by workers to fight to have their voices heard.

Dr. Emmet O’Connor, author of A Labour History of Ireland 1824-2000 and Rotten Prod the Unlikely History of Dongaree Baird about Jim Baird, ITGWU union organiser in Waterford in 1923 will deliver the opening address on “Waterford 1923-The Wider Context”. Dr. Pat McCarthy will talk about the actions taken by the new Free State government in sending in the National Army to “make an example of the place”. Dr. Terry Dunne will speak about women in rural labour history and Kieran Allen, Professor of Sociology will talk about Waterford Agricultural Workers and the Irish Revolution.

The event will also include the launch of the Waterford 1916 to 1923 website where resources from the Decade of Centenaries in Waterford will be made available and the launch of a new online map of Waterford and the Civil War.

This event is free but booking is required. You can book on Eventbrite at https://bit.ly/waterfordstrike

This event is part of the programme of events organised by Waterford Commemorations Committee and is supported by the Department of Tourism, Culture, Arts, Gaeltacht, Sport and Media under the Decade of Centenaries 2012-2023 initiative.

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By Waterford City & County Council

CLÁR Scheme 2023 : Supporting Rural Waterford

The CLÁR 2023 Funding Scheme is now open for applications.

The CLÁR (Ceantair Laga Árd-Riachtanais) Scheme provides funding for small-scale infrastructural projects in rural areas that have experienced significant population decline. The CLÁR Funding Scheme is available to areas of population decline in County Waterford, as defined in the CLÁR area map and the list of CLÁR Electoral Districts below.

There are three measures being funded under the 2023 CLÁR programme.

Measure 1, operated by Waterford City and County Council, aims to develop community facilities and amenities. Up to 15 applications in total can be submitted from the relevant Local Authorities in respect of Measure 1. Priority for 2023 will be given to small-scale renovation works to community buildings and community centres that did not receive funding under the Community Centres Investment Fund. The maximum level of funding for any individual project is €50,000, and grant-funding is at a rate of 90% of total project costs.

Types of projects that may be supported under Measure 1 include small-scale renovation works to community facilities, multi-use gaming areas, playgrounds, sensory gardens, community cinemas, and community gyms. Funding will not be available for school/community safety measures, footpaths, pedestrian crossings, bus shelters, or works to current school buildings that are not open to the public after school hours.

All necessary permssions must be in place at the time of making an application, including landowner consent, planning permission, and match funding, and proof of same must be submitted with any application. Any facilities funded must be available to the public without a requirement to be a member of a club or enrolled in a school. Facilities on school grounds must be open to the public outside of school hours.

Measure 2, administered directly by the Department of Rural and Community Development, provides funding for mobility, cancer care, and community first responders transport.

Measure 3, also administered directly by the Department, provides funding for Island Communities for Island Community Transport and Outdoor Community Recreation Amenities.

  • Waterford City and County Council will be operating Measure 1 of the CLÁR scheme.

Applications should be submitted to Waterford City and County Council at swhelan@waterfordcouncil.ie by Thursday 11th May 2023 at 4:00p.m.

If you live in a rural area of County Waterford and have a project idea that could benefit your community, consider applying for funding through the CLÁR Scheme 2023. This could be an opportunity to develop or enhance community facilities and amenities that can improve the quality of life for local residents. Be sure to review the guidelines and criteria for each measure before submitting your application.

By Waterford City & County Council

Dungarvan Roundabout Sponsorship Scheme 2023

Waterford City & County Council is implementing a scheme for the sponsorship of roundabouts around our city and county.

The Council is seeking to engage with businesses and organisations who wish to enhance our city and county’s built environment while benefiting from advertising opportunities being offered on two roundabouts in the Dungarvan area.

An applicant may submit a tender for either one or both roundabouts. Where a number of tenders are received for a particular roundabout, the sponsorship will be awarded to the highest tenderer.

Overview

  • This tender relates to the sponsorship of two roundabouts on public roads on the N25 Dungarvan Bypass.
  • The two roundabouts are Springmount Roundabout and Strandside Roundabout which are located on the N25 Dungarvan Bypass.
  • The sponsorship duration will commence in June 2023 and conclude in December 2027.
  • The sponsorship fee is per annum for four years from 2024–2027 and for 2023 is for seven months pro rata of the annual fee from 2024–2027 as the sponsorship period will commence on 1st June 2023. Part payments will not be accepted.

Tender Documents
Full tender document, map, fee information, specifications, tender form etc. are available here in the TENDER DOCUMENT.

Communications
Communications in connection with the Tender or requests for clarification should be addressed to: Anthony Russell, Administrative Officer, Environment Department, Waterford City & County Council, Civic Offices, Dungarvan, Co. Waterford.

E-mail: arussell@waterfordcouncil.ie

The latest date for receipt of communications in connection with this tender is: 4:00pm on Friday, 5th May 2023.

Closing date for receipt of tenders is 4:00pm on Friday, 12th May 2023.

By Waterford City & County Council

Autism Friendly Waterford bid gets underway

The Autism Friendly Waterford initiative was launched on Sunday in the Tower Hotel with over 200 in attendance.

Addressing the gathering, Mayor of Waterford City & County, Cllr John O’Leary said this initiative “will help overcome barriers and bring great benefits to the city”. Waterford has already been voted the best place to live in Ireland. This, he added, would be another feather in our cap if we became the first Autism Friendly City in Ireland with Waterford leading the way in creating a truly inclusive society.

Dick White from AsIAm, gave a brief overview of the programme. David Galvin, a teacher from the ASD unit in St. Paul’s Secondary School, spoke of the gaps in the education system that need to be addressed. He also outlined the wonderful work that is being done in St. Paul’s, not only to cater for autistic students, but also to create a culture of tolerance and acceptance of diversity amongst the school population.  Amanda Fox from the Cara Autism Support Service in the National Learning Network, spoke of her own late diagnosis and how she organised a party to celebrate it and to help her son come to terms with his diagnosis.

Maolíosa Ní Chléírigh, Tish Holton, Deborah Gray and Frances Jacob explained their vision of a three year programme, with businesses and public services being asked to take measures to become autism friendly by undergoing staff training, providing sensory accommodations and giving employment, where appropriate to autistic people.  80% of autistic people are underemployed because the system does not cater for them.

The event was sponsored by Healthy Ireland and Waterford Lions Club, with the support of WLR and the initiative is being rolled out in partnership with Waterford City & County Council and Waterford Chamber.

For more information visit the website at www.autismfriendlywaterford.com or email autismfriendlywaterford@gmail.com

By Waterford City & County Council

Craig Breen- Book of Condolonce

Mayor of Waterford City and County Cllr. John O’ Leary extended his condolences to the family of Craig Breen on his sudden and tragic passing in Croatia.
“Craig was a young man with a passion for motor sport and he achieved so much in his all-too-short career. From a young age, his talent and passion for motorsport were apparent and that was reflected in the numerous rallies he won, from the Irish National Junior Rally Championship to the Super 2000 World Rally Championship.
“Craig achieved so much in his career and it was with pride that the people of Waterford, Kilkenny and Ireland followed his trajectory around the world. He was generous and giving of his time and advice to the next generation, inspiring them with his love of motorsport.”
I would like to extend my deepest sympathies to Craig’s family, his parents Jackie and Ray, his sister Kellie, his extended family, wide circle of friends and the motorsport community at this difficult time.”
Ar dheis Dé go raibh a anam.
A Book of Condolence has been opened for the late Craig Breen at City Hall, Waterford and at Civic Offices, Dungarvan. The Books will be open for members of the public to sign from the hours of 9.30am to 4pm.
An online Book of Condolence is also available at https://zfrmz.eu/tgeCi67WEZkEsA0xqfxn

By Waterford City & County Council

Road Closure Arrangements : West Waterford Festival of Food

Notice is hereby given that Waterford City and County Council, in exercise of its powers
pursuant to Section 75 Roads Act 1993, propose to close the following roads to through
traffic on Saturday 15th and Sunday, 16th April, 2023 to facilitate the West Waterford Festival of Food.

Roads to be closed:
From 6am until 8pm Saturday 15th April the following roads shall close:
• L3139 – Davitt’s Quay (from it’s Junction with Bridge Street to Harbour Street)
• L3136 – Carberry’s Lane
• L3137 – Galwey’s Lane
• L3169 – Thompson’s Lane

Parking on all the above mentioned streets shall be restricted from 6pm the night before.
No parking shall be allowed on Davitt’s Quay during the road closures. Access to the Garvey’s Supervalu Car Park on Davitt’s Quay shall be maintained via entrance on Cross Bridge Street, with all vehicles exiting via Bridge Street.

Traffic Diversions – Saturday 15th April 2023:
All traffic from the L3122 “The Lookout Road” shall be diverted via L3131 Quay Street to L3128 Church Street and onto L3126 Emmet Street.
All traffic travelling from R911 – T.F. Meagher Street shall be diverted onto L3139 (North or South). There will be no access to eastbound traffic to the The Causeway for the duration of the event. Westbound traffic will be unaffected except for a 30 min period during the RNLI “Duck Race” event when the road shall close.

From 6am until 9pm Sunday 16th April the following roads shall close:
• R911 – Grattan Square
• R911 – Saint Mary’s Street
• R911 – T.F. Meagher Street
• L3132 – Parnell Street
• R672 – O’Connell Street (from its Junction with R911 and Western Terrace)
• L3135 – Crossbridge Street
• L3137 – Galwey’s Lane

Parking on all the above mentioned streets shall be restricted from 6pm the night before.
Traffic Diversions – Sunday 16th April 2023:
All vehicles travelling from R911 The Causeway shall be diverted onto L3139 (North or South). All vehicles travelling from R911 Saint Mary Street shall turn right onto R672 O’Connell Street.

Advisory:
From 8am until 12am Friday 14th April 2023 part of the area of Walton Park adjacent to
the Causway will close for the ticketed “Park After Dark” event. Access to the park via the
Causeway Entrance will be restricted during these times but all other entrances and access to the park shall remain unaffected.

By Waterford City & County Council

Kieran O’Donnell TD, Minister of State for Local Government and Planning visits Waterford

Kieran O’Donnell TD, Minister of State for Local Government and Planning visited Waterford today to view progress on several URDF projects and Waterford’s newest affordable housing sites.

 

Arriving at City Hall, the Minister was welcomed by Mayor of Waterford City and County, Cllr. John O’Leary, Michael Walsh, Chief Executive Waterford City and County Council, members of the management team, and elected representatives.

The Minister then toured four URDF project sites in the city centre; Parade Quay, George’s Street, Beach Tower Square and Barker Place.

Minister O’Donnell also visited Ostmen Place, a social housing development consisting of 14 social housing units in Ballytruckle, funded by the Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage under the Housing for All programme and St. Joseph’s House Housing Development, on the landmark site on Manor Hill. The former convent consists of 50 units located (a mix of one- and two-bedroom dwellings) within the main building, while 21 units are located in the various out-building clusters on the site.

The Minister also visited Summerfields, one of three new affordable housing complexes in Waterford city.

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