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Families of three and four living in a single box room in their parents house; parents sleeping on sofas every night so that their children can have a bed. These are just some of the instances that Sinn Féin councillor Tom Forde regularly comes across.

When it was announced that a roundabout would be installed at the junction of Distillery Road and The Fairways, it was generally heralded as a positive move by the Wexford public.

Although the assumption would be that homeless shelters provide temporary, emergency accommodation for those with nowhere else to go, this is certainly not the case in Wexford it has emerged.

Hard-line dissident group Saoradh claim a republican has been approached by ‘MI5 agents’ offering briefcases full of cash.

Following years of discussion, a new roundabout is set to be installed at the busy junction of Distillery Road and The Fairways in Wexford town.

Nearly a year ago, letters dropped in the letterboxes of residents of Fishers Row, Seaview Avenue and Trinity Street informing them of large scale works which would be carried out on the bank at Trinity Street and at the opposite side of the road at what will be the entrance to Trinity Wharf.

It’s not an uncommon occurrence for meetings of Wexford County Council to run over time and for standing orders to be suspended to allow them to continue, sometimes even running up to four hours.

Old mattresses, beds, garden furniture, bits of timber and bags of household waste. These are just some of the things you’ll discover if you take a stroll up the laneway at the back of the houses in Belvedere Grove.

Wexford County Council has been criticised after rough sleepers were reportedly denied access to emergency accommodation as Ireland was battered by the strong winds brought by Storm Isha.

Wexford gardaí have been made aware of a veiled threat made against one of Ireland’s biggest haulage firms, hours after a major fire ripped through an industrial estate which is home to their Welsh offices.