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Browne committed to challenge

by Brendan Keane 28/02/16 2:27am

NEWLY ELECTED Fianna Fail T.D., James Browne, has acknowledged that this years General Election was a difficult one for the people of New Ross but has committed himself to working on behalf of the people in the town in addition...

Fight goes on for Wadding

THE FIGHT for a fair system goes on for Wexford County Councillor, Deirdre Wadding, who was eliminated from this year’s...

Sunday, 28/02/16 - 2:12am Read More

Byrne happy despite defeat

DEFEATED GENERAL Election candidate, Aoife Byrne, has confirmed to the Echo that she will likely run in the next local...

Sunday, 28/02/16 - 1:50am Read More

Foxe to run in locals!

DEFEATED INDEPENDENT General Election candidate in Wexford, Caroline Foxe, has told the Echo she isn’t ruling out running in the...

Saturday, 27/02/16 - 11:10pm Read More

Howlin, Browne and Wallace elected. Recount on Monday

Michael D’Arcy will take the fourth seat in Wexford and Paul Kehoe will take the fifth! However, there was a...

Sunday, 28/02/16 - 5:54am Read More

Live from the Wexford Count Centre

A full tally for the Wexford Count shows Brendan Howlin in the lead where the quota is expected to...

Saturday, 27/02/16 - 3:07pm Read More

Browne goes to the top of the poll

With 50% of the boxes opened Fianna Fáil’s James Browne has gone to the top of the poll with his...

Saturday, 27/02/16 - 12:05pm Read More

Don’t forget to cast your vote today

Polling booths across Co. Wexford will be open from 7 am to 10 pm in the General Election. In Wexford,...

Friday, 26/02/16 - 9:54am Read More

Fianna Fáil’s Aoife Byrne Tipped for seat

Fianna Fail’s Aoife Byrne’s is being tipped by many across the county to take a seat in Wexford in Friday’s...

Wednesday, 24/02/16 - 4:30pm Read More

Wexford in full Bloom as groups awarded

by sarahbermingham 27/06/17 12:36pm

SUCCESS BLOOMED for local participants at Ireland’s largest garden festival recently, with the County Wexford Garden & Flower Club awarded ‘Best in Show’ on the year of their fiftieth anniversary. A postcard garden designed and constructed by a small group...

Filed under: Bloom, Coolaught Gardens, Henry Deacon, Wexford Garden & Flower Club

Wexford woman widowed as cardiac facilities closed

A MURRINTOWN woman whose husband died of cardiac arrest while being brought by ambulance to hospital in Cork, as adequate...

Tuesday, 27/06/17 - 12:28pm Read More

The Wexford Echo wins justice media award

The winner of the Justice Media Award in the Regional Newspapers category is Tom Mooney of The Wexford Echo for...

Monday, 26/06/17 - 11:50am Read More

Relay to remember, celebrate and fight back

A WAVE of emotion swept across Pairc Charman, on the outskirts of Wexford town, on a summer’s night last August,...

Tuesday, 20/06/17 - 12:55pm Read More

Life in jail for man who stabbed wife over 60 times

AN ENNISCORTHY man has been sentenced to life in Swiss prison after he told the courts that he stabbed his...

Tuesday, 20/06/17 - 12:05pm Read More

Crowds expected in Gorey today for the annual agricultural show

Traffic is expected to be heavy in and around the Clonattin area of Gorey today (Saturday) as large crowds gather...

Friday, 16/06/17 - 11:34pm Read More

Feile Parade in Gorey on Friday evening

Local organisers are calling on the people of Gorey and district to come out and support the Feile Parade through...

Wednesday, 14/06/17 - 4:21pm Read More

Glory Days are back for the Purple and Gold

YOUNG AND old shone purple and gold as a wave of colour engulfed Wexford Park on Saturday night last and...

Tuesday, 13/06/17 - 3:30pm Read More

Lyricist Gordon awarded international prize

WEXFORD SINGER / songwriter Gordon Barry is set to soon release his single ‘Devil & St. Jesus’, after the song’s...

Tuesday, 13/06/17 - 3:25pm Read More

Scouts show support for Coastguard

ON THE day County Wexford’s new International Outdoor Adventure Centre (IOAC) was officially opened at Sixacre, Tagoat, some 150 young...

Tuesday, 13/06/17 - 3:20pm Read More

Major County Council enforcement operation in North Wexford

by Dan Walsh 27/06/17 11:48pm

Lively activity on the Moneygarrow Road, at a waste distribution centre at Killowen, near Inch, on Monday resulted as Wexford County Council officials “conducted a significant environmental waste enforcement operation at an unauthorised waste site.” The large scale operation...

It was All-Ireland final day in Croke Park, not for hurling or football, but for spelling, and Ashley Bolton,...

Tuesday, 27/06/17 - 5:15pm Read More

Hegarty is new Cathaoirleach

FINE GAEL’S, Cllr. John Hegarty has been elected as the new Chairperson of Wexford County Council with Fianna Fail’s, Cllr....

Friday, 23/06/17 - 12:07pm Read More

Cllr Joe Sullivan is cathaoirleach of Gorey Municipal District Council

Fianna Fail’s Cllr Joe Sullivan was elected as the new Cathaoirleach of Gorey Municipal District Council, replacing his party...

Wednesday, 21/06/17 - 12:33am Read More

REVIEW: Brass rings out at the Sky

SUMMER WAS welcomed in style at The Sky & the Ground pub, South Main Street, when the pulsating sounds of...

Tuesday, 13/06/17 - 3:23pm Read More

Dragon roars for Richard’s resource

A LOCAL entrepreneur on a mission to tune the attention of the world’s workplaces to wellness secured €60,000 investment from...

Tuesday, 06/06/17 - 11:49am Read More

Conor, Lucy and Mia most popular

Newborn baby boys in the county last year were named Conor more often than they were given any other name,...

Tuesday, 06/06/17 - 11:25am Read More

Council embraces energy efficiency

WEXFORD COUNTY Council (WCC) has committed to reducing its energy consumption by one third in signing a Public Sector Energy...

Tuesday, 30/05/17 - 5:06pm Read More

Howlin slams broken promise on cardiac care

THE INABILITY of Taoiseach Enda Kenny to provide a date for when a mobile cath lab for the provision of...

Tuesday, 30/05/17 - 5:04pm Read More

67 complaints to Children’s Ombudsman

SOME 67 complaints were made by, or on behalf of, children in County Wexford, to the Ombudsman for Children’s Office...

Tuesday, 30/05/17 - 5:00pm Read More

Ernest celebrates 40 years in business

by Brendan Keane 27/06/17 11:23am

A LOCAL well-known businessman will be celebrating 40 years in operation on July 1. The name Ernest Levingstone is synonymous with the financial services sector not just in New Ross and Gorey, where he has also run a successful business...

THE CARMELITE nuns in New Ross will be celebrating their order being 200 years in the town on July 20...

Tuesday, 27/06/17 - 11:20am Read More

New schools officially opened

THE OFFICIAL opening ceremony of New Ross town’s two new primary schools took place at the weekend. Under a glorious...

Friday, 23/06/17 - 11:59am Read More

Fr. Billy’s ordination bridges 50 year gap

A 50 year gap was bridged at the weekend in Horeswood Parish Church when local man, Billy Caulfield, became the...

Tuesday, 13/06/17 - 9:55am Read More

Denis sits his leaving at 73

NEW ROSS man, Denis North, who left school after completing his ‘Inter Cert’, 57 year ago, when he was 16,...

Tuesday, 13/06/17 - 9:51am Read More

Tadhg makes Lions debut

CAMPILE MAN, Tadhg Furlong, continued his history-making exploits in rugby at the weekend when he came on as a second-half...

Monday, 05/06/17 - 1:30pm Read More

Gorey shop winning ticket worth €269,554

Maureen Breen (proprietor) and Elaine Hennell sold a big lottery winning ticket in Gwalia Stores, Gorey, last Friday. An unidentified...

Thursday, 25/05/17 - 11:17pm Read More

Wexford Gardaí best at tackling phone-holding drivers

CONVICTIONS WERE issued to almost half of all those who came before County Wexford courts between January 2015 and March...

Tuesday, 23/05/17 - 11:57am Read More

Wexford’s waters mainly ‘excellent’ for bathing – EPA

HOLIDAYMAKERS AND local alike keen to enjoy a dip in the waters off Wexford over the summer months can do...

Tuesday, 23/05/17 - 11:53am Read More

A community’s embrace can help refugees integrate – Razan Ibraheem

A SYRIAN woman who was delighted to recently receive Irish citizenship has described the power of small communities nationwide to...

Tuesday, 16/05/17 - 2:17pm Read More

Over €45,000 raised for Pieta House

by sarahbermingham 27/06/17 12:32pm

A STAGGERING €45, 595.90 was raised for suicide and self-harm prevention charity Pieta House through the first Darkness Into Light event held in Wexford town. Some 1,900 people completed a five kilometre course from St. Joseph’s Centre, Bishopswater, at 4.15am...

Filed under: Darkness Into Light, Darkness Into Light Wexford, Liam McCabe, Pieta House, St. Joseph's Centre

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