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Local writer Imelda Carroll is to have her first collection of short stories published by Red Books Press. Making Waves contains 13 stories including The Elephant in the Room, which was short listed for the William Trevor Short Story Competition in 2008, The Frost, which came second in the WexWorlds Fantasy Festival Short Story Competition in 2015, and The Vigil, which won the inaugural Write by the Sea Short Story Competition in 2016.

The Wexford Unit of the Order of Malta Ambulance Corps has held a CPR (cardiopulmonary resuscitation) education display in Tesco, Distillery Road, to coincide with Restart a Heart Day which took place on October 16. In addition, volunteers visited secondary schools across the county to provide basic life saving skills and CPR training to students in the week leading up to the event.

Crowds of up to 20,000 are expected to descend on Wexford Quay this evening (Tuesday, October 24) for the fireworks display which signifies the opening of the Festival Opera.

Our crown may have slipped, been stolen by pretenders from Germany, the Czech Republic, but, make no mistake, we’re a match for anyone on our day – and the rest of the world knows it.

The Wexford Festival Singers have announced that its annual festival concert will take place in Rowe Street Church on Sunday, November 5 at 2.30 p.m.

Cannes Film Festival prize winners, Oscar nominees, and the best entries from the Venice Film Festival are on offer for audiences as part of The Picture House’s (Wexford Film Society) programme for the 2023/24 season. At the launch of the new season of screenings, chairperson Stephen Eustace announced that that the first film of the year would be shown in a very special setting.

With recent episodes on The Chinese Bigfoot, Mexican aliens, an eight-legged Japanese woman known as The Jorogumo, and the Gaeltacht Ouija Board, it’s fair to say that the Monster Fuzz podcast lives up to its billing as the home of ‘high strangeness’. Created by Wexford’s Rob Billington and Eamonn O’Neill, Monster Fuzz has grown from being an interesting side-project during lockdown to one of Ireland’s most successful exports, a podcast which has seen the lads acquire legions of fans...

After what was the most successful event in its history, the Wexford Dip in the Nip has officially passed the €250,000 mark in terms of money raised. Although donations continue to flood in, organiser Eileen Rowe said that the current figure for this year’s event was €40,160 which brings the total amount over the nine years to €255,111.

The Talbot Hotel in Wexford town has taken home four awards from the prestigious Irish Hotel Awards which took place at the Radisson Blu in Sligo last week. Over 500 guests from across the hospitality industry gathered to celebrate the industry's best performers and they saw the Talbot win both the Coastal Escape of the Year 2023 and 'Brand Hotel of the Year 2023.

A father and daughter from Rosslare have celebrated the gift of life at a service in Mullingar which honoured organ donors from across Ireland. In December of last year Trish Boyce donated a kidney to her dad John after he was diagnosed with renal failure in 2017.