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Aldi Ireland has pledged to support the planting of one million native Irish woodland trees around Ireland over the next four years as part of its long-term commitment towards the environment. Aldi is the first retailer in Ireland to commit to this level of partnership with the Department of Agriculture’s Woodland Environment Fund (WEF) – an initiative under which Irish businesses can partner with landowners and the Department to help create new native woodlands in Ireland. It provides addi...

Agriculture minister joins supermarket brand to launch tree-planting pledge Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine Charlie McConalogue and Minister of State with responsibility for forestry Pippa Hackett have joined with supermarket brand Aldi Ireland to launch its campaign to plant one million trees by 2025. Aldi is the first retailer in Ireland to commit to this level of partnership with the Department of Agriculture’s Woodland Environment Fund (WEF), which is an initiative under whi...

How much is your House worth in 2021? While home values in South Wicklow have risen by an average of 8pc on this time last year, that rate of increase is expected to level off to a more modest 3pc. The fact that more family buyers are looking at South Wicklow now than ever before has seen the price of both three and four-bed semi-detached houses in town recording big increases of 14pc and 15pc — from €262,000 to €300,000 for three-beds and from €297,000 to €340,000 for four-be...

Around €160,000 has been allocated for walking trails and outdoor amenities in the Garden County. A group of nine projects will receive grants totalling €158,247 from the Outdoor Recreation Infrastructure Scheme with most of the funding going towards the maintenance and development of walking trails in west and south Wicklow. Money has also been awarded to three initiatives to promote the countys outdoor amenities. The Department of Rural and Community Development and Failte Ireland announ...

A planning application for the Arklow to Shillelagh Greenway could be submitted to An Bord Pleanala in the coming months. Members of the Baltinglass Municipal District received an update on the project during their December meeting, which took place using the Zoom platform. Margaret Hartnett, Senior Executive Engineer with the Roads section of Wicklow County Council, told councillors that the project had received support from the local community and was expected to provide economic benefits fo...

Shronedraugh Joe, owned by Tim Kelly in Killarney, took race one; leading from the first bend to beat Devon Express by one and a half lengths in 29.63 at a price of 2/1 joint favourite. Master Joe Murphy from Abbeyfeale won race 2 with Corrin Annie. Taking up the lead at the second bend she went right away to win by seven and a half lengths from Send it Thunder in 29.41 at a price of 4/1. Cashen Direct, for James Hannon and Chris Houlihan of Ballyduff and trained by Chris, won race 3. Taking th...

A new booklet has been published exploring the history of Preban Cemetery in Annacurra. Preban Graveyard: Learning through our heritage is the culmination of a project undertaken by the community in Annacurra to tell the story of the graveyard. The book looks at the rich and diverse history of Preban Cemetery. It also includes the records of all the burials recorded by the Preban Graveyard Committee during their research and photos of the headstones. This booklet contains the inscriptions of 1...

Over two Monday nights I watched that excellent two-part television programme, The Hunger: The Story of the Irish Famine, broadcast on RTÉ and written by Ruán Magan. It was a powerful piece of work. There was an immediacy to its portrayal of the awfulness and horror of what happened to ordinary people. Equally immediate was its depiction of the cynicism, racism and heartless opportunism exhibited by many of those at the upper echelons of government, and to our shame, by neighbours and local o...

Galway Bay FM 13 December 2020 print Galway Bay FM Newsroom – Over 3 thousand premises in the Ballinasloe area are to be connected to fast broadband by the middle of next year. That’s according to Senator Aisling Dolan, who says the news has been confirmed by the CEO of National Broadband Ireland. She says the 3,300 premises are in ‘blackspot’ areas in Ballinasloe and surrounding areas, including Kellysgrove, Clontuskert, Lismany, Ballydangan, Taughmacaonnell, Caltra, Ahascragh, Aughrim...

I just happened upon it the other day – my Penguin Modern Classics edition of James Joyce’s Dubliners. Far from being a shiny, pristine copy, however, this was the dog-eared, scruffy, paperback that I’d had when I was studying literature as an undergraduate way back in the day. I flicked it open and was amazed to see how many notes I had written in the margins, most of them in red biro for some bizarre reason, and some quite extensive. I smiled as I recalled my then boyfriend one day runn...