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Laois have gotten their first championship win of 2024 after they defeated 14-man Wicklow in the Tailteann Cup in Echelon Park Aughrin this afternoon. Justin Mc...

Wicklow IFA, Wicklow County Council and Wicklow Cheviot Sheep have joined forces to launch a campaign to make dog owners aware of the risks their pets pose when allowed off the lead near to where livestock is kept.

A preferred route for the Arklow Shillelagh Greenway will be published in the coming weeks as the engineering team behind the project finalise their engagement with local landowners.

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With elections — local, European, national and presidential — fast coming up in the next 18 months, a relatively small, but more emboldened far-right has made immigration and asylum a dominant issue in Ireland, writes Security Correspondent Cormac O’Keeffe

Online posts by such groups, which urge pressure to be applied to both individual workers and companies, have risen sharply in recent weeks…

In the countryside above Aughrim lies the townland of Kilpipe, home of one of the sharpest minds in Wicklow agriculture. Tom Byrne is a rogue, an agitator, a home-spun character and a wit. He is also a serious thinker about all matters rural and about how farming ties in with the wider world. An hour in his lively company is sure to give visitors a slew of ideas to ponder on, along with the feeling that they have been entertained as well as enlightened.

Online posts by such groups, which urge pressure to be applied to both individual workers and companies, have risen sharply in recent weeks, but one travel company has been the victim of such posts for more than a year.