Maria Pepper News Today

For over 40 years, Donal Lyttleton has kept silent about the night his colleague and friend Detective Seamus Garda Seamus Quaid was shot and killed by Provisional IRA gunman Peter Rogers at Ballyconnick Quarry, never speaking about it again, apart from giving evidence at the Special Criminal Court.

Wexford’s boutique literary festival, Write by the Sea, is ready for its latest chapter as some of the biggest name in literature make their way to Kilmore Quay this weekend.

As the National Opera House gets ready to celebrate its 15th birthday, chairman Paul Hennessy, who oversaw its development, wants everyone to appreciate how lucky Wexford town is to have such an amazing facility on its doorstep.

The Waterford and Wexford Education and Training Board (WWETB) has announced the elimination of fees for all its PLC programmes as it prepares to open a new College of Further Education and Training in Clonard.

A Wexford farmer whose letters to the Irish Farmers’ Journal about politics, economics and spiritual matters have sparked national comment for many years, has written a novel about rural romance, and how relationships in Ireland have often been dictated by land and class distinction.

The families of two Wexford women who died from cancer came together to organise a fundraiser for Wexford Hospice Homecare which helped to ensure that they were cared for in their own homes before they passed away.

A three-bedroom terraced house situated a stone’s throw from the National Opera House in Wexford town centre is on the market for €95,000.

One of the biggest commercial property sales in Wexford town history is due to take place next month with an auction of the Colman Doyle shops in South Main Street which have been vacant for over three years.

A decision by Wexford County Council to grant planning permission to Lidl Ireland to build a second supermarket in Wexford town, has been appealed to An Bord Pleanála.

“It was a very tough decision to make”, said Brian Kavanagh, co-owner of well-known Marlowe Cleaners in Wexford town which has closed down more than 60 years after it was first established on the Main Street.