Friday 24 May 2013
Killenagh Wanderers 2, St. Leonards 1: A breezy Cloughbawn saw these sides produce an incident-filled Ger Dunne Under-16 Cup final before Killenagh eventually secured their third cup final win inside ten days.
Campile United 1, Courtown Hibs 2: Played in Ferrycarrig Park as part of the John Giles Festival of Football, these two young sides produced an entertaining and exciting Under-10 Cup final which displayed all the best in under-age soccer in Wexford at present.
Adamstown athletes showed their talents last weekend at Day 1 of the county championships, with just over 40 athletes competing for the club, there was lots of success and newly crowed county champions.
WEXFORD'S MINOR football adventure came to an end on Saturday last when a slicker Dublin side always seemed to have that bit in reserve in the Electric Ireland Leinster championship quarter-final held in the D.C.U. grounds.
ONE OF the issues that Oulart-The Ballagh have faced in the course of their four-year reign at the top is the lack of quality games in the early stages of the Pettitt's Senior hurling championship.
The retirement of Manchester United manager Alex Ferguson struck a personal chord with the well-known Wexford bus operator Jim Shannon who has met the legendary soccer boss on numerous occasions.
AFTER SURVIVING the last-day relegation trauma of 2012, Glynn-Barntown hit three unanswered points from the 55th minute onwards to take Rathnure's scalp in this low-scoring and defence-dominated Pettitt's Senior hurling championship Group B opener in Bellefield on Saturday last.
NOW THAT the hurling season is in full swing, memories came flooding back, particularly on Bank Holiday Monday when I covered an Under-21 Premier championship game.
SUBSTITUTE ED Tobin was the toast of Bellefield on Sunday last after his first-time pull to the net in an almighty scramble nearly 90 seconds into added time gave Rapparees a fortunate one-point win over Adamstown in this hard-fought Pettitt's Senior hurling championship Group A tie in Oylegate.
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.
IN case you hadn't noticed the traffic lights outside Dunnes are back in action.
A man who could not explain how the drug came to be in his pocket pleaded guilty to possession of cannabis last week.
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.
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.
Musician Pierce Turner is basking in the warmth of a big Wexford hug after a Gathering weekend devoted to his music.
MADELEINE Quirke, is Chief Executive of Wexford Chamber, one of 56 affiliated Chambers operating under the umbrella of Chambers Ireland.
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.
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