Saturday 25 May 2013
Four senior citizens who have turned to art have put their work on public show at the Presentation Centre in Enniscorthy. The painters, who learned their craft at the Start Art studio in Borrmount, present their exhibition as part of the Bealtaine festival celebrating creativity in old age.
Ian (Mocha) Moloney and his band Cousin Bill played a homecoming gig in Maggie Mays to celebrate the launch of their debut album aptly named First.
The work of student photographer William Butler from Wexford town will go on show in Dublin later this month.
Liam O Maonlaí will appear in concert at An Tobar in the Wesgate Heritage Centre on Saturday next, May 18.
It will be a holy show at White's Hotel this Saturday when The Priests appear in concert. Tickets are €30, but for an additional €15 you also get a 3-course meal and meet and greet with the trio. Doors open 8 p.m. and tickets are available from White's and the Arts Centre.
THE 'unique and special bond' which Mayor Jim Allen says Wexford enjoys with the U.S. is celebrated in a new book published by Wexford Borough Council.
Four senior citizens who have turned to art have put their work on public show at the Presentation Centre in Enniscorthy. The painters, who learned their craft at the Start Art studio in Borrmount, present their exhibition as part of the Bealtaine festival celebrating creativity in old age.
THE MEMBERS of Gorey Men's Group have proven themselves a dab hand in the kitchen, and were delighted recently to be presented with certificates for completing a HSE Healthy Eating programme.
A PIECE of school history was made in Coláiste an Atha, Kilmuckridge, recently, as the first students in the school's history sat their practical music exams at Junior Cert level.
Enniscorthy writer Colm Tóibín, pictured, is in the hunt for a prestigious Tony award on Broadway.
The tasty takeaway treats of three Wexford students have been shortlisted in the 'Takeaway My Way' cookery competition.
WEXFORD'S BEST restaurants, hotels and chefs have clinched prestigious accolades at the Leinster Regional Final of the Santa Rita/LIFE Magazine Irish Restaurant Awards.
GOREY has a new ICA Guild.
Supporters of St. Anthony's Unit at the Community Workshop in Enniscorthy are running at bazaar in aid of the unit on Sunday, May 5.
SINGER/songwriter Eleanor McEvoy is to hold a concert at the Wexford Opera House on May 3 in support of the senior hurlers.
NEW ROSS artist Maverick Sabre will be performing in the 2013 BBC Proms this summer.
Out Of Order on Dún Mhuire stage
Two childhood friends who had not seen each other for 50 years were re-united thanks to an appeal in the Wexford People.
A young Wexford solider killed in the Congo over 50 years ago was remembered at a wreath-laying ceremony in Barntown.
![Nuala Browne Treacy, is pictured with Eimear Whittle, F?ilte Ireland; John Treacy and Angela Devitt, Treacys Hote, Enniscorthy,l at Meitheal, Irelands largest travel trade workshop in the RDS, Dublin. [Photo: Fennells]](http://cdn3.independent.ie/regionals/wexfordpeople/news/article29265250.ece/ALTERNATES/w90square/NWS_20130514_New_032_27422549_I1.jpg "Nuala Browne Treacy, with Eimear Whittle, Fáilte Ireland; John Treacy and Angela Devitt, Treacys Hotel, Enniscorthy,at Meitheal, in the RDS.")
A number of Wexford tourism industry providers attended 'Meitheal', Ireland's largest travel trade workshop, in the RDS, Dublin.
THE new Wexford Business Network is to be officially launched in Dublin at the end of the month.
THE unusual sight of the Union flag flying on Wexford Bridge was too much for someone in the town over the weekend.
MORE than 100 people, including Deputy Liam Twomey and Senator Jim Walsh, attended a County Wexford Prolife Campaign meeting in the Talbot Hotel recently.
A BALLYCANEW farmer was this week faced with the grim task of burying nine dead greyhounds which were callously dumped on his land at Kilcorkey.
THEY say one person's trash is another person's treasure, and Ballygarrett Tidy Towns group certainly proved that point when they raised a whopping €1,275 through a recycling and reusing bring and buy weekend in An Síolan recently.
THE FIREFIGHTERS with Gorey Fire and Rescue Service cleaned up for two local good causes when they set up a car washing service in the Tesco car park in Gorey.
THE annual awards evening at Enniscorthy rugby club is normally a happy family occasion.
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