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While the Wexford town bolt bike scheme has been a success since its launch last year, calls are now being made to extend it to the outskirts of the town so more people can avail of it. Sinn Féin candidate for the Wexford Borough in this summer’s forthcoming elections, Lorraine Smyth, is a resident of Barntown and says those living there should be able to access the bikes.
The Wexford Festival Singers will perform Joseph Haydn’s The Seven Last Words of Our Saviour on the Cross, for its annual spring concert which takes place in Rowe Street Church at 7.30 p.m. on Sunday, March 24.
The many pathways of love will be explored in a special series of concerts at The Gallery in Green Acres next month. Wexford pianist and répétiteur Rebecca Warren will be joined by soprano Hannah O’Brien for Les chemins de l’amour, an evening of opera arias featuring the works of Dvorák, Mozart, Puccini and the songs of Poulenc, Stanford and Strauss.
At the last count there were more than 13,000 Irish people accessing emergency accommodation in the State, over 4,000 of them children. Yet those figures only tell a fraction of the story. In addition to the numbers sleeping rough, there are countless numbers of ‘hidden homeless’; people sleeping on couches, with friends or family, moving from one temporary situation to the next.
Gardaí are investigating two separate assaults in the Enniscorthy district. The first occurred at a business premises in Drumgoold on the afternoon of Wednesday, February 14 and a man (20s) was arrested in relation to the incident. He was later charged and is due to appear in court.