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Please sir… I want some more
THE BISHOP has called on his flock to dig deep for the diocese, by helping to pay crippling costs for payoffs from the sexual abuse here.
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Junkets cost us €80,000
WEXFORD COUNTY council spent tens of thousands of Euro sending local councillors on junkets to some of the world’s most exclusive destinations, according to documents released to the Echo under the Freedom of Information Act.
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Wednesday, March 10, 2010
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Hospital to lose 24/7 emergency services
Thursday, March 04, 2010
24-HOUR EMERGENCY services will not be retained at Wexford General Hospital following the publication of a review into acute hospital services in the south east, the HSE has confirmed.
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Contract signed for €1.5m works at Faythe N.S.
Thursday, March 04, 2010
CONTRACTS HAVE been signed to begin a major refurbishment and extension of St. John of God School, The Faythe.
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Labour Councillors defend ‘expenses’ as justified
Thursday, March 04, 2010
THERE WERE angry exchanges at Monday’s meeting of Wexford Borough Council when Labour Cllr. George Lawlor accused Fianna Fáil’s Fergie Kehoe of launching a “partisan political attack” on him.
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Tiny wonders are saving lives in Haiti
Thursday, March 04, 2010
A COUNTY Wexford company has played a significant part in saving people’s lives in disasterstricken Haiti.
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Fund-raising night for cancer victim Ryan (1)
Thursday, March 04, 2010
A WEXFORD mother, whose one-year-old baby boy has an extremely rare form of liver cancer, has been boosted by the way her family have helped arrange a Benefit Night to raise much needed funds for his care.
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Hughes and Hughes closes without warning
Thursday, March 04, 2010
WEXFORD’S HUGHES and Hughes bookshop closed without warning on Friday when the company went into receivership.
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Haiti Appeal raises nearly €75,000
Thursday, March 04, 2010
NEARLY €75,000 was raised for GOAL’s Haiti appeal by local businesses and schools who took part in South East radio’s recent sponsored fun-day.
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Classy cars in charity run
Thursday, March 04, 2010
WEXFORD MOTOR Club has announced its first Vintage Classic and Sports Car Charity Run, to take place on Sunday, April 11th.
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Double delight for beauty salons
Thursday, March 04, 2010
SAM MCCAULEY Beauty Salons in Redmond Square, Wexford and Court Street, Enniscorthy, have both been awarded 2010 Crown Salon status – one of the top accolades in the professional beauty industry – at the 11th annual Guinot Crown Salon Awards held in London.
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Rosslare wreath laying ceremony
Thursday, March 04, 2010
THE RNLI, the Coast Guard and a large group of people turned out on a very fine sunny afternoon for the Rosslare Lifeboat Annual Wreath-Laying Ceremony at The Burrow, Rosslare, recently.
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Postmistress Mary retires
Thursday, March 04, 2010
LIKE HER parents before her, Mary Morrissey ran Tagoat Post Office with great dedication.
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Dallaglio in Wexford
Thursday, March 04, 2010
FRESH AFTER England’s bruising defeat at the hands of the Irish rugby team on Saturday, former English Rugby Union captain Lawrence Dallaglio will be in Wexford to launch his celebrity race in aid of cancer research on March 5.
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NCT reduction not passed on
Thursday, March 04, 2010
WEXFORD MOTORISTS are still paying 21.5per cent VAT for their NCT certificates, even though the VAT rate was due to be reduced to 21per cent in January, The Echo can reveal.
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Schools braced for loss of SNAs
Thursday, March 04, 2010
SCHOOL PRINCIPALS across county Co. Wexford are bracing themselves for the imminent loss of Special Needs Assistants (SNAs) after a spending review by the Department of Education.
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Meteroic win
Thursday, March 04, 2010
WEXFORD DJ Leigh Doyle’s head was left spinning after he picked up a Meteor award for Best Regional DJ recently.
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Councillors spent €80,000 on travel abroad shock
Thursday, March 04, 2010
WEXFORD’S COUNTY councillors travelled in style during the boom years, splashing out rate payers’ cash on limousine hire, five-star hotels, and gourmet meals, the Echo can exclusively reveal.
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Glitz and glamour at the Waldorf Astoria
Thursday, March 04, 2010
THERE SEEMS to have been considerable interest among councillors when a trip to New York was organised in 2007.
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The councillor, his wife and four weeks in Australia…
Thursday, March 04, 2010
DREARY ECONOMISTS were using the ‘R’ word, recession, in early 2008 but, like Bertie Ahern, Wexford county council thought the “boom was getting boomer”.
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Jimmy Curtis and his €11,000 luxury travel
Thursday, March 04, 2010
CLLR. CURTIS was county council chairman in 2006 and took every opportunity to travel abroad that year the further afield the better.
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Armed raiders rob post office
Thursday, March 04, 2010
TWO MEN with sawn-off shot guns stole a substantial amount of money from Kilmuckridge Post Office last Wednesday afternoon.
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Injured woman (59) denied home help
Thursday, March 04, 2010
A FERNS woman who seriously injured her back in an accident, is not entitled to home help because she is one year under the HSE cut-off age of 60.
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Burglaries down 6%
Thursday, March 04, 2010
WEXFORD WAS one of the only counties in the country to record a decrease in burglaries last year.
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