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); The level of expectation they have of themselves is massive - the challenge of coaching star players Former Wexford and Kildare manager Jason Ryan is Shane Keegan’s latest guest on How To Win At Dominoes. By Kevin OBrien Friday 5 Mar 2021, 4:04 PM Mar 5th 2021, 4:04 PM 5,018 Views 0 Comments Jason Ryan speaks to Mattie Forde during a Wexf...

Wexford GAA launch new €5m five-year strategic plan March 02, 2021 Wexford senior football manager Shane Roche, Wexford county board chairman Micheál Martin and Wexford senior hurling captain Matthew OHanlon at the launch of Wexford GAAs five-year strategic plan (2021-25) Ar Aghaidh Linn le Chéile at Chadwicks Wexford Park. Wexford GAA has launched a new €5m five-year strategic plan (2021-25), entitled Ar Aghaidh Linn le Chéile (Onwards Together). Hailed as "the most ambitious plan ever ...

The regeneration strategy for Templeshannon in Enniscorthy will be dependent on a successful negotiated tender after the open tender process failed to attract any interest from consultant firms. The multi-million euro project will be developed in three stages and the current tender process was with regard to a preliminary design for the area, which will also incorporate a new pedestrian footbridge over the Slaney. However, at last weeks meeting of Wexford County Council the members were told th...

Horticulturists Paul and Edel Maher are living the gardeners dream having created a little green haven in Ballinagam, Ballygarrett. The pair are no strangers to gardening, as Paul was the curator of the National Botanic Gardens in Glasnevin and lived on site with Edel, who was Propagation Foreman for over 40 years. Having trained in the 1970s, the pair worked at the National Botanic Gardens of Ireland, the National Botanic Gardens at Kilmacurragh, Co Wicklow, and the John F Kennedy Arboretum. ...

The tail end of 2020 saw dairy stock in high demand in marts and sales, with heifers and young cows commanding the highest prices.

Simone and Joe in the courtyard between their home and the gallery. It was Simones idea to put the frame-like structure above the fountain, the better to train the eye on the garden. Photo: Tony Gavin The themes of her paintings and prints are quintessentially Irish. The Wexford-based artist is noted for her nostalgic take on the Irish larder and Irish brands; her scenes of an Irish childhood; her quirky vision of our coastal villages, and her highly individual interpretation of our many natio...

Benny and Ann Sullivan All Covid has done is accelerate existing trends, says Adrian Haythornthwaite. And one of those existing trends is people relocating to Wexford from the capital. People have always tended to come to Wexford to start new lives. And now city life is not functional in the post-Covid era, Adrian explains. The reasons people had for being in the city - in that snazzy two-bed apartment on Grand Canal -the relationship they had with their barista, their publican, the local Arts ...

Its been a difficult year for musicians. With the majority of gigs cancelled their main source of income has disappeared, their lifeblood cut at the source. Financially this has been devastating, but it has also robbed musicians of the opportunity to do what they love best: perform and play music. Its also been a difficult year for organisations which rely on the charity of the others, organisations like the Hope Cancer Support Centre (HCSC). Through the release of their debut album, Legacy-Oi...

Fr Jim Hammel. The publications editor, Fr Jim Hammel, outlined the origins of the book and said the first book was welcomed with great enthusiasm by all sections of the local community and of County Wexford at large. The initiative itself came from members of the local clergy, particularly those keen to see the preservation and recording of historical events and traditions of the county, and anxious to save documents, artefacts, architectural sites and local history from loss, neglect and obli...

The Model Banner is a group that has been in existence in County Wexford for the last two years. Their music has featured heavily on local radio and has earned the band a lot of fans throughout the county. The Model Banner name represents a combination of the counties of origin of the three members: Jim Boyce and Kathleen OShea, from the Model County, Wexford, and Tony Durack, from the Banner County, Clare, though now living in Wexford for many years. This weeks column places the focus of atten...