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The Department of Integration has confirmed that the old Great Southern Hotel building in Rosslare Harbour is to be repurposed into accommodation for international protection applicants.
As Wexford prepares for another week of storms, another week of rain, and another week of potentially life-altering floods, Marie O’Gorman’s concern is not her own safety or wellbeing, it’s that she might be forced to leave the only place she has ever called home. Now 81-years-old, Marie has lived in Ballygeary, Kilrane her entire life, reared her children there, had hoped to see her days out there, but now that decision may be taken out of her hands by mother nature.
Women and children were lifted into a rubber dinghy and evacuated from their homes in The Haven in Rosslare Strand on Monday as floodwaters slowly made their way into more than 15 homes there.
More than a few councillors groaned as they flicked through the Chief Executive’s Report circulated before October’s meeting of Wexford County Council.
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The committee were suited and booted for their latest meeting but, in the absence of flip-flops and Renault cars, they couldn’t pull the crowds