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The team behind New Ross’s Summer Food Drive has begun issuing packages to families as it seeks to alleviate the pressures felt by parents during the weeks leading up to the return to school. Local politician Councillor Michael Sheehan is the co-ordinator of the food drive and explained why it’s so important to have the service available at this time of year.

A community initiative which will enable isolated members of the Taghmon Camross parish to attend medical appointments, sporting events, and visit friends and relations has been launched at the Taghmon Action Group (TAG) building. Created by Ann Marie Laffan (Sláintecare Healthy Communities Programme), Mary B O’Leary (Wexford Local Link), Emily O’Rourke (Wexford Local Development), and John Waters (Taghmon Action Group), this innovative new project which see a community car made availab...

Amid the outpouring of grief the same phrase was repeated over and over again: “Why did we have to wait until she’d died to tell her how we felt?” She’d been here all that time, iconoclastic, outspoken, outrageously talented, and no one had thought to say anything, to let her know how much we loved her.

The district manager of the Gorey Kilmuckridge Municipal District (GKMD) has said he is “stunned” and “a little bit upset” following an allegation that he was “less than honest” during a council meeting in June.

After last year’s inaugural event, Country Fest Wexford returns to Wexford Racecourse this August 13 from 1-7 p.m. and features some of Ireland’s biggest performers. Headlining this year is Mike Denver, The Conquerors, Gerry Guthrie, Louise Morrissey, Brendan and Emily Shine, Clodagh Lawlor, the Ennis brothers, the T & N Dance Band, and Lorraine Rankin. Last years event attracted a huge crowd on the day who rocked the dance floor from start to finish.

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.

Since she first began taking part in beauty pageants seven years ago Mary Mullally has had one burning ambition; to appear in a competition in the States, to walk a US catwalk and, perhaps, bring a world crown back to Wexford. Last week, the native of Milehouse, Enniscorthy, went a long way towards achieving those goals when she won the 2023/24 edition of Miss Elegance of the World International.

The editor of Gript, the former commissioner of New York City Human Rights Commission, and the chairman of the Republicans Overseas UK, will form part of the US politics panel at this year’s Kennedy Summer School. Taking place on Saturday, September 2 at 4.15 p.m. the panel will see human rights lawyer Pat Gatling, UK republican Greg Swenson, American journalist and former NBC anchor Renee Fattah, and Gript editor John McGuirk take to the stage in New Ross as part of this year’s event.

The increased development of offshore wind energy will provide long-term, sustainable employment for coastal communities across Wexford. That was the view of Minister for the Environment and Climate Eamon Ryan TD as he welcomed the establishment of the Maritime Area Regulatory Authority (MARA) at Rosslare Europort recently.

Quick to distance himself from the suggestion he is an ‘expert’ on the topic, Dr Philip Cardiff does concede that he may have reached that status by the time his five-year project on pig-to-human heart transplants comes to a conclusion. The Mulrankin native has received a European Research Council (ERC) Consolidator grant of €2m for XenoSim, a project which will see him develop advanced computational techniques into the cutting-edge realm of pig-to-human heart transplants.