The Irish Times

A plan to transform the disused Clyde Wharf area of Waterford into a plaza with facilities for music and theatre events was announced yesterday. The Millennium Open Plaza on the South Quay, opposite Reginald's Tower, is to be one of the largest millennium projects outside Dublin. Half of the £1.7 million cost will be met by the National Millennium Committee, which is spending £30 million on 60 projects throughout the State.

The committee chairman and Government chief whip, Mr Seamus Brennan TD, said it was appropriate that Waterford, a city steeped in centuries of maritime tradition, should be looking at innovative river-based activities and new uses for the quayside for the next millennium. The plaza is to be located on the site of the wharf built by the Clyde Shipping Company in the 1950s, which until recently contained a disused transit shed.