Thursday 23 May 2013
Take a look around Ferns Castle, without leaving home. That is the invitation from Google Street View, which has made the home of the MacMurroughs their first Wexford landmark to receive the full online virtual treatment.
I am not looking for sympathy. I erred and strayed like many a sinner before me. Retribution was in order – but the scale of the retribution still came as a shock.
The scene at Raheenvarron in Newbawn was like something out of an Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn novel. You remember Aleks. His books shook the world as they exposed the evils at the heart of the Soviet empire. They also left a lasting impression on readers of merciless east winds and desolate landscapes populated by gaunt spectres wondering where their next meal might be coming from.
NEW ROSS was still suffering the ill-effects of the 1970s recession when an American businessman visited the Barrowside town in the early nineties looking for a base to serve his company's growing European market.
Last week there was welcome news when a UNICEF league table on the overall well-being of children showed that Ireland ranked 10th out of 29 industrialized countries.
Tuesday: Every parent, I imagine, has a daily 'window of silence' that they crave, in much the same way that a deserted islander might wish a rescue ship onto the horizon. Mine usually arrives at approximately 8pm, when the young lad and younger lad are bunked up in their beds playing Hangman, or chewing over the events of the day in their school and crèche respectively.
IREALLY don't understand what all the fuss is about regarding the detection of horsemeat in burgers recently. I've eaten far worse than horse meat - my cooking in general is pretty gruesome, and it's never done me any harm! I went through a phase when I was in college of loving steak and kidney pies and God only knows what's in them!
HOPES have been building in Co. Wexford since the idea was first mooted last November, that US President Barack Obama might visit New Ross this summer to honour the county's most famous son, President John F Kennedy.
A FRUSTRATED reader was in touch to complain about the number of people who seem to have forgotten how to cross the road safely.
The shocking and coldblooded murder of Detective Garda Adrian Donohoe in County Louth by a scumbag gunman on Friday night has rightly horrified the nation, and shows just how out of control that criminal gangs have become on both sides of the border.
'THE LABOURER deserves his wages' is a familiar phrase from the Gospels that was uttered by Christ and repeated by St Paul in his letters. Those five words stand as the foundation of Catholic Social Teaching, and I remember well being lectured about it in college, and hearing about Pope Leo XIII's encyclical Rerum Novarum, and Pope John Paul II's 1991 encyclical Centesimus Annus.
I WORSHIP the ground on which newsreader Michael Doyle walks. He is the very model of broadcasting clarity and excellence. Nevertheless, I find that the financial slot at lunch time on local radio is utterly wasted on me.
ENNISCORTHY shopkeepers trading in the centre of the town have experienced a fall in the number of customers darkening their doors recently. So what could be the reason for the drop in business? The worldwide recession compounded by the collapse of the Irish financial system might have something to do with it: they admit that.
A PLAN to make Church Street easier to drive along was given the thumbs-up by Enniscorthy town councillors at their February meeting. The drawings presented by council engineer Mark Collins showed the footpath running in front of St Mary's church gone, allowing a wider carriageway.
THE MINUTES of Enniscorthy Town Council came under legal scrutiny last week as Cllr James Browne turned his attention to the official record. The barrister-cum-local representative did not attend the January meeting of the council when the minutes of last year's budget meeting were dealt with.
USED adult nappies were among the rubbish left in an overgrown patch of ground beside the 21 Steps, according to disgusted independent councillor Seán Óg Doyle.
JUST TWO councillors stood over the maligned €100 household charge when members of Enniscorthy Town Council considered a motion tabled by Sinn Féin's Johnny Mythen last week.
Musician Pierce Turner is basking in the warmth of a big Wexford hug after a Gathering weekend devoted to his music.
DEREK Fehily grew up in Wexford town – like many of his business generation, the family home atop the family's pharmacy in South Main Street.
MADELEINE Quirke, is Chief Executive of Wexford Chamber, one of 56 affiliated Chambers operating under the umbrella of Chambers Ireland.
WEXFORD Festival Opera is looking for extras to perform in the Jules Massenet one-act operas, Thérèse and La Navarraise at this year's Festival.
Wexford gardai are investigating the theft of seven outboard engines worth over €25,000 from the laguna in Rosslare Harbour.
A WEXFORD-based store applied for a declaration to the borough council in relation to a development without the knowledge of the owners of a site at Drinagh or of Meadows and Byrne which has permission for a lifestyle centre there.
ALMOST 100 local businesses have submitted applications for the 2013 Wexford Business Awards.
GARDAI ARE now preparing a file for the Director of Public Prosecutions following an arson attack on the office of Government Chief Whip Paul Kehoe.
A young Wexford solider killed in the Congo over 50 years ago was remembered at a wreath-laying ceremony in Barntown.
IN case you hadn't noticed the traffic lights outside Dunnes are back in action.
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