Month: January 2014

BROWNE URGES COMMUNICATIONS MINISTER TO ADDRESS BROADBAND PROBLEMS A Wexford TD has warned the Communications Minister to ensure that infrastructural changes needed for broadband development don’t result in another dispute…

MAN JAILED FOR LIFE FOR MURDERING MELANIE MCCARTHY MCNAMARA A man has been jailed for life after being found guilty of murdering Melanie McCarthy McNamara. The 16-year-old was shot dead…

MOUNT CARMEL HOSPITAL IN DUBLIN TO CLOSE The High Court has appointed provisional liquidators who plan to gradually wind up the private hospital in order to protect its 230 patients….

WATERFORD FIRE BROUGHT UNDER CONTROL A fire at the Glanbia office complex in Dungarvan in County Waterford has now been brought under control. The blaze caused extensive damage to the…

29 IRISH WATER STAFF ON 100,000 EURO SALARIES The government has written to the head of Irish Water John Tierney, asking him to explain the bonus arrangements for 29 staff…

OPERA HOUSE FUNDING Wexford Opera House has got an increase in funding this year It has gone up by 100thousand euro from 1.3 to 1.4million euro The funding from the…

ILLEGAL CIGARETTES CONFICATED AT ROSSLARE EURPORT Twenty seven thousand cigarettes have been siezed at Rosslare Europort They arrived on the ferry from France yesterday evening Officers from Revenue’s Customs Service…

TAOISEACH ON BANK RECAPITALISATION The Taoiseach has said European people like to see decisions followed through on, when it comes to the retroactive recapitalisation of the banks. Speaking to Bloomberg…

GARDA COMMISSIONER SAYS ALLEGATIONS MADE BY WHISTLEBLOWERS “DISGUSTING” Martin Callinan has told the Public Accounts Committee he thinks it is strange that only two gardaí have raised allegations of corruption…

MAN ARRESTED AFTER NORTHERN IRISH WOMAN KILLED IN AUSTRALIA A woman from Northern Ireland has been found murdered in Australia. The body of 39-year-old Comrie Cullen was discovered in a…

GARDAI APPEAL FOR HELP IN TRACING MISSING GOREY TEENAGER Gardai in Co Wexford are appealing for assistance in tracing a 15 year old girl. Chanice McGovern has been missing from…

TANAISTE SAYS ALL SALARIES OF CHARITY CEOS SHOULD BE MADE PUBLIC The Tánaiste has all but called for the Chief Executive of Rehab to make her salary public. This piles…

GARDAI IN WATERFORD APPEAL FOR WITNESSES FOLLOWING POST OFFICE ROBBERY Just before 12 o’clock two men are understood to have held up the post office in Cheek-point. The men are…

77 UNFINISHED HOUSING ESTATES IN COUNTY WEXFORD There’s been an 8 per cent decrease in the number of unfinished housing estates in County Wexford. The Housing Minister Jan O’Sullivan says…

ENNISCORTHY RESIDENT APPEALS FOR INFORMATION FOLLOWING HOUSE ROBBERY Liam Kelly says his home was targetted either on Sunday the 12th of January or Monday the 13th while he was in…

VARADKAR ON PAC/PENALTY-POINTS The Minister for Transport says it is certainly the case that some Gardai have abused their discretionery powers when it comes to penalty points. His comments come…

LAND PRICES UP The price of farmland in the south east is up fifteen per cent Thats according to the latest Ganly Walters farmland price survey covering counties Wexford Carlow…

WALLACE RETURNS Wexford Independent TD Mick Wallace is back in the Dail Technical Group He was removed from the group in 2012 over revelations about his tax affairs The Technical…

WASTE RETURN Hundreds of tonnes of illegally dumped waste is to be returned here from Northern Ireland An estimated nineteen hundred tonnes of household rubbish was dumped underground on a…

JUST 2 IDA SITE VISITS TO COUNTY WEXFORD IN 2013 New figures show there were just two IDA site visits to County Wexford last year and three the previous year….

MAN TO BE SENTENCED FOR RAPING TWO YOUNG GIRLS IN ATHLONE A man who has admitted raping two young girls who went missing from a birthday party is to be…

COUNTY WEXFORD’S FISHERMEN NEED TO BE LISTENED TO County Wexford’s fishermen need to be listened to in relation to fish quotas. That’s according to MEP for Ireland South Sean Kelly…

MINSTER SAYS BIAS TEST FOR BANKING INQUIRY COMMITTEE IS VITAL The Communications Minister says the ‘bias test’ for members of TDs who want to sit on the Banking Inquiry is…

THE NUMBER OF NEW BULDINGS IN COUNTY WEXFORD IN 2013 IS ALMOST HALF THE NUMBER OF 2012 The figures reflect a national decline of 36 per cent. The figures from…

TAOISEACH SURPRISED BY LOW RETURN ON HIGH SCRATCH-CARD SALES The Taoiseach says he was surprised to hear that Rehab made less than 10,000 euro profit on scratch card sales of…

DUBLIN HOSPITAL AND OBSTETRICIANS APOLOGISE OVER DEATH OF BABY BOY A father has described the death of his two day old baby at a Dublin maternity hospital as avoidable. The…