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A craft and design business from Wexford has won Best Newcomer of the Business of Craft Awards at Showcase 2024 which took place in the RDS this week. Sully & Juno, supported by Local Enterprise Office (LEO) Wexford, won Best Newcomer category in the inaugural Business of Craft Awards.
The next generation of Wexford journalists are busily working on a publication which will document the day-to-day activity at one of the county’s biggest secondary schools. The Bridge, which is due to come out around Easter, is written and edited by students from Bridgetown College with the entire school body, from first years to sixth, involved in its production.
A former leader of the National Symphony Orchestra (NSO), one of the nation’s leading conductors, and a child prodigy destined for a glittering career in music will headline the first of Wexford Sinfonia’s 30th anniversary concerts in the National Opera House on Sunday, January 28. Having finished his tenure with the NSO nine years ago, Alan Smale acted as ‘guest leader’ for the Sinfonia and has remained an integral part of the group ever since.
The Heritage Council of Ireland (HCI) has asked Wexford County Council (WCC) to hire contractors to repair a thatched house which had previously been subject to “one of the most significant conservation projects” in recent history. Restored in 2001, the house in Mayglass is believed to be over 300 years old and considered one of “the most important vernacular farmsteads in the country”.
The prospect of 65 new houses being developed without sufficient services for residents has left one Wexford councillor vowing to ensure the works will go ahead “over my dead body”. While welcoming the possibility of additional housing in her home town of Bunclody, Fianna Fáil councillor Barbara-Anne Murphy said that any attempts to simply “land the buildings into a small town” without any preparation would be faced with stiff opposition.