Month: July 2016

WEXFORD HARVEST County Wexford has the greatest number of acres under grain in the country this year There is a total of of just over thirty five thousand hectares under…

WICKLOW MURDER A Polish woman is beginning a life sentence today after being found guilty of murdering her colleague by deliberately driving them into the Avoca River in Arklow Csaba…

CORNMARKET DRUGS PROGRAMME There has been a huge increase in the use of legal highs in substance misuse in County Wexford Thats according to figures released by the Cornmarket Project…

RAPE FIGURES A quarter of the people who contacted the Dublin Rape Crisis Centre last year reported sexual abuse by their partner or spouse. The organisation’s Annual Report for 2015…

GARDA RESHUFFLE Following a reshuffle of top garda management personnel, County Wexford will be left with only fifty per cent of its superintendent rank Commissioner Noirin OSullivan has reshuffled her…

ENNISCORTHY FIRE There was a major fire in Enniscorthy this afternoon A number of units of the Fire Brigade battled the blaze Ballyorril a few miles outside the town The…

RENT ALLOWANCE THRESHOLD There has been call for rents to be reviewed for entitlement to the rent supplement in County Wexford It has come from a motion passed by Wexford…

WATERFORD ABUSE A psychiatric report has found that a boy who was abused by his father in Waterford is trying to block out what happened as a means of coping….

CHEAP LOANS A new Credit Union loans system aimed at putting pressure on money lenders is being rolled out. The scheme gives loans of no more than 2,000 euro to…

LOCAL AUTHORITY DEBT Figures released today show that Wexford County Council is almost 138 million euro in debt. Outside of the local authority’s in Dublin and Cork, Wexford had the…

STRIKING OFF TEACHERS New rules will allow teachers to be struck off if they’re found guilty of serious misconduct. Under the Fitness to Teach system anyone can report a case…

NEW ROSS BRIDGE Controversy has arisen over the naming of the new cable stay bridge as part of the New Roass bypass The bridge one of the longest of its…

ROSSLARE DRUGS HAUL There has been a major drugs find today at Rosslare Europort Cocaine with an estimated street value of 1.2million euro was discovered on an Irish registered truck…

WEXFORD BLACKCURRANTS A campaign is underway to get protected status for the Wexford blackcurrant There has been a big reduction in the number of acres under blackcurrants in recent years…

BYPASS WORKERS Its emerged that the major earth moving contract for the Enniscorthy bypass has been granted to a non Irish company from Portugal The matter was raised in the…

INTERNET SAFETY Children are being sexualised early by easy access to pornography online. That’s one of the big concerns outlined in the ISPCC’s annual report that was launched today. The…

TOURIST NUMBERS UP 8 million tourists visited Ireland in 2015 according to Fáilte Ireland. That’s up 13 percent since last year. Tourism brought in an extra 6 billion euro to…

CAR SALES ON THE RISE IN IRELAND 150-thousand new cars have been sold in Ireland since the start of the year. Making it the strongest trading year since before the…

FRENCH PRESIDENT TO VISIT IRELAND The French President Francois Hollande will visit Ireland today. Mr. Hollande will arrive in Ireland this morning and meet the Taoiseach to discuss the fallout…

THE GENTLE GIANT OF WEXFORD POLITICS DIES Tributes have been paid to former Fine Gael County Councillor Pat Codd. The 78 year old died unexpectedly at his home in Taghmon…

FINAL DAY OF THE US REPUBLICAN PARTY NATIONAL CONVENTION Donald Trump will officially accept the Republican party’s nomination for US President tonight. He is due to make a speech at…

HOUSING CRISIS Fianna Fáil says ‘extraordinary measures’ are needed to tackle the housing crisis. It comes as leaked documents from the Government’s action plan on housing reveals 45-thousand social houses…

DAIL UPGRADE A 690,000 euro upgrade to microphones and the voting system in teh Dáil chamber is to take place this summer. TDs will begin their summer holidays next Thursday…

NEW NORTHERN SECRETARY British Prime Minister Theresa May has appointed a new northern secretary. James Brokenshire is a former Minister for Security and Immigration and is an MP for Old…

WEXFORD POPULATION The population of County Wexford is now just short of 150 thousand Thats according to the latest census figures published today It is up 3 per cent since…

WALLACE HIGHEST SPENDER ON ENTERTAINMENT – REPORT Independent TD Mick Wallace’s spend on entertainment last year was the highest of any independent TD or senator. The Sunday Times reports that…