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Digital Content Creator February 14th is the perfect time to treat that special someone in your life. Whether you're having a Zoom party with your fellow single ladies or cooking dinner with your other half, Valentine's Day is all about showing the love. To give you a helping hand this year, and to support Irish businesses while we're at it, we have found some decadent delights and tantalizing treats for you to pick up ahead of the big day. Grá Chocolates Created by head chef Grainne Mullins, each and every piece of Grá Chocolate is crafted with care in painstaking detail. Made in small...

With Wexford Arts Centre galleries closed due to government restrictions, the annual Lions Club exhibition took place entirely online this year. The event celebrates local talent and offers a platforms for artists at various stages of their career to show their work in a public setting. 'The show migrated online with great success and opened via Zoom with over 100 people in attendance. Viewers were able to view artworks from 123 submitting artists in our online gallery from the comfort and safety of their own homes. It was met with positivity by both artists and exhibition-goers alike' said t...

The time honoured tradition of the New Year's Day 'arrow ceremony' at Hook Head; one which goes back to 1687, will not go ahead in its usual format this year due to Covid-19 social distancing restrictions. Every year archers join An Cathaoirleach of New Ross Municipal District to fire arrows into the estuary, claiming dominion over the waters. Councillor Michael Whelan confirmed that the traditional ceremony cannot go ahead this year. 'Unfortunately we cannot do the ceremony as it would attract people in numbers to Hook Head. The annual sunrise tour at Hook Lighthouse also can't go ahead.' Th...

With all the talk of Fungie going AWOL from the Dingle Peninsula it was with a sense of utter joy for local photographer Danny Ahern when he learned of a pod of the wonderful mammals near his home village of Duncannon, in Ballyhack. Danny was invited onto Walter Foley's touring boat with Gearoid Ryan from Hook Tourism and Dylan St Ledger from Visit New Ross on a beautiful, crisp December day recently where he captured these magical shots. Recalling the trip of a lifetime, Danny said: 'With a sense of explosive wow I drove across Arthurstown to Ballyhack looking left out to sea at a huge numbe...