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Two digitally-focused Wicklow training and cat rescue initiatives have been shortlisted as finalists in the prestigious .ie Digital Town Awards 2024.

Hundreds of feral cats are being given a chance at a happy, healthy life thanks to the care and kindness of a Wicklow veterinary practice and two welfare charities.

An online event will be held in May allowing the public the opportunity to meet the candidates who will contest the upcoming local elections in County Wicklow.

The owners of one of New Ross town’s destination businesses – The Treasury – have criticised the lack of forethought of the Government’s new free books scheme, which they say has wiped out their business.

Local residents and Wicklow Senator Pat Casey have weighed in on a proposal for a new international airport in Arklow, with the Senator saying it is not in line with current national policy and that any such development would take three decades to come to fruition.

The family of a four-year-old Wicklow girl with Cystic Fibrosis, who has been hospitalised twice in the last four months, are celebrating this week as she was finally able to receive “game-changing” modulator medicine.

Eamon and Andrew Breen of The Atlantic Bro-ing team were presented with Arklow Municipal District’s Cathaoirleach’s Special Recognition award by Cathaoirleach, Councillor Tommy Annesley, at a recent function.

A community of Wicklow maritime enthusiasts, after many months of planning, has secured large sections of Arklow's historic last sail cargo vessel...

After many months of planning by a community of Wicklow maritime enthusiasts, large sections of the Arklow sailing vessel ‘De Wadden’ are now back in her home port.

Arklow Town Team and Arklow Tidy Towns have appealed for volunteers for the An Taisce Spring Clean on Sunday, April 14, which will see community members picking litter from Arklow, Aughrim and Avoca to Woodenbridge.