Sunday 19 May 2013
Eimear Lynch from Little Bray works for Concern Worldwide and spent a year in the Democratic Republic of Congo with the aid agency. She is now back in Dublin working in the Concern offices where she is busy organising and planning the Concern Schools' Debates and the agency's development education programme.
Cllr. Conal Kavanagh has raised concerns over the future of the Legal Aid Board office in Wicklow town and its possible relocation to Bray.
Funding of €302,250 has been approved for the development of a Community Amenity Park in Redcross.
Wicklow Enterprise Centre has secured over €190,000 in funding which will be used to improve access to Wicklow Gaol and for new audio and video equipment.
Chakra by Jaipur in Greystones is the best restaurant in County Wicklow, according to the Santa Rita/LIFE Magazine Irish Restaurant Awards.
Members of the Oldcourt Park Road Safety Committee have put traffic cones out to try to solve an ongoing problem on the road.
The fourth Irish Traditional Italian Chippers Association (ITICA) National Fish and Chips Day takes place near the end of the month with all associated chippers offering half price fish and chips.
While plans are afoot to permanently close A&E services at St. Columcille's Hospital, a trauma and cardiac/stroke by-pass policy has been in operation for some time.
A new guide promoting positive mental health was launched by students at Loreto Bray last Thursday.
Eimear Lynch from Little Bray works for Concern Worldwide and spent a year in the Democratic Republic of Congo with the aid agency.
A group of students from Norway, Spain and Greece who are visiting Loreto in Bray went to Dáil Eireann last week.
Cllr. Jimmy O'Shaughnessy said he believed that the report on Three Trouts vindicated, in part, the concerns of the three councillors. He said, 'Some of the findings clarify what we are saying. There was a second valuation on the land which we weren't told about. Part of the land is on a flood plain.'
The row over the purchase of lands at Three Trouts looks set to rumble on as one of the councillors at the centre of the report said they are seeking legal advice on the matter. The report which was published last week was commissioned by Minister for the Environment, Phil Hogan, following representations by Cllrs. Jimmy O'Shaughnessy, Tommy Cullen and Barry Nevin about their concerns surrounding the €3million purchase of lands at Three Trouts in Charlesland by Wicklow County Council.
A Bray man who allegedly stole €120 had his case adjourned until May when he appeared before Judge William Early at last Thursday's sitting of Bray District Court.
A Bray native is challenging a banking tycoon to pay a bill for £4,350 for roofing works.
Thirteen people on the waiting list from Co. Wicklow area.
A rehab integration programme, set up in Wicklow in October 2012, is another branch of the Tiglin Centre.
IN the wake of this week's concerns raised by the Garda Representative Association over the manner in which crime figures are registered a Wicklow County Councillor has warned that extra pressure is being placed on urban stations to cover rural areas as a result of cutbacks.
Cllr. Conal Kavanagh has raised concerns over the future of the Legal Aid Board office in Wicklow town and its possible relocation to Bray.
Funding of €302,250 has been approved for the development of a Community Amenity Park in Redcross.
Wicklow Enterprise Centre has secured over €190,000 in funding which will be used to improve access to Wicklow Gaol and for new audio and video equipment.
Chakra by Jaipur in Greystones is the best restaurant in County Wicklow, according to the Santa Rita/LIFE Magazine Irish Restaurant Awards.
Members of the Oldcourt Park Road Safety Committee have put traffic cones out to try to solve an ongoing problem on the road.
The fourth Irish Traditional Italian Chippers Association (ITICA) National Fish and Chips Day takes place near the end of the month with all associated chippers offering half price fish and chips.
While plans are afoot to permanently close A&E services at St. Columcille's Hospital, a trauma and cardiac/stroke by-pass policy has been in operation for some time.
A new guide promoting positive mental health was launched by students at Loreto Bray last Thursday.
Eimear Lynch from Little Bray works for Concern Worldwide and spent a year in the Democratic Republic of Congo with the aid agency.
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