Paul Funge News Today

A new book compiled by friends of the widely admired Irish writer Philip Casey, is set to launch in a Dublin bookshop this week.

Gorey Tidy Towns has paid tribute to all of its volunteers and its team of Tus and CE workers for their hard work over the past year.

Gorey Library enjoyed a full house recently as guests listened intently to an engrossing discussion involving two of Ireland’s greatest authors, Joseph O'Connor and Colm Toibín.

Gorey writer Diarmaid Ó Súilleabháin is to have a new housing development named after him in the coming months.

Gorey writer Diarmaid Ó Súilleabháin is to have a new housing development named after him in the coming months. The world-renowned writer who worked as a teacher in the local Christian Brothers School prior to his passing in 1985 already has a street named after, but now calls have been made to have his legacy further strengthened in his adopted home.

Tara Studios has received approval for planning in principle by Wexford County Council for the construction of its film production studios at Borleagh Manor in Inch. The application, lodged in November last year, sought permission for the construction of seven studio stages, ten workshops, two office buildings and a security building. It also requested landscaping on site that includes mature trees for visual screening, the creation of a car park for 430 spaces as well as 2.4 metre high securi...