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A successful tender has been chosen for the €1m plus Brennan’s Lane/Shambles project in New Ross.

The well respected and much loved Duiske Players Drama Group are currently in rehearsals for this year’s production of Robert Harling’s ‘Steel Magnolias’, which takes place in Graiguenamanagh over three nights from Thursday, April 25 to Saturday, April 27.

Independent TD Verona Murphy has said mental distress is being caused to people in Co Wexford’s tourism industry arising from a lack of planning when it came to allocating homes to people fleeing the war in Ukraine.

TWO THOUSAND five hundred trees have been planted at Clonroche Amenity Park as part of ‘The 100 Million Trees Project’ – which is a community driven initiative to plant 100 million native trees across Ireland.

Duncannon Holiday Park is getting a major expansion, from 52 bays to 95, between mobile homes, camping and four freshly built safari tents.

New Ross opticians Eyecatchers has closed after twenty years trading in the town, the business having relocated to their Waterford base.

A valuable 19 acre non residential holding is for sale by online auction on Friday, April 18, at 12 noon.

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.

The last five years of the outgoing county council can effectively be described as a lost opportunity for New Ross, says Independent Local Elections candidate, John Dwyer.

Five community groups including businesses, social enterprises and a school in county Wexford have received a quick cash injection to invest in new technology thanks to the RISE Community Fund.