Wednesday 22 May 2013
An Enniscorthy company is looking to Africa as it seeks to expand its brief beyond Ireland. Chevron Training, based at the enterprise centre next to Enniscorthy Vocational College, has set up in partnership with Vacc Technical - a building services company in the Nigerian capital Lagos.
VOLUNTEERS with the Rock Social Club who took to the roads around the area just outside Gorey for the annual Spring Clean were shocked to find they collected enough litter to fill 200 rubbish bags in less than two hours.
An Enniscorthy company is looking to Africa as it seeks to expand its brief beyond Ireland. Chevron Training, based at the enterprise centre next to Enniscorthy Vocational College, has set up in partnership with Vacc Technical - a building services company in the Nigerian capital Lagos.
GOREY gave a warm welcome home to one of the town's most distinguished sons when former Irish ambassador to Britain Ted Barrington gave a talk to the North Wexford Historical Society about his life and times.
WITH the evenings getting longer and temperatures starting to rise, Gorey Credit Union is encouraging locals to get out and about and get fit for a very good cause.
Wexford strawberries used to be the people's crop. Labourer's cottages had quarter acre plots. Small farmers might risk an acre. There were hundreds of such growers, most of them depending on family manpower to harvest the finished fruit.
A COUNTY Wexford couple have revealed how they took steps to start their family with the help of donor sperm insemination.
VILLAGES around north Wexford are putting their best foot forward these days thanks to the hard working Tidy Towns volunteers.
THE GOREY Ballygarrett CCE Feis was held in St. Joseph's CBS in Gorey recently, and throughout the day, the rooms were filled with music and song.
Members of Project Smilier TY group from Gorey Community School travelled to RTÉ to be interviewed as part of the Cycle Against Suicide campaign recently.
STUDENTS at Gorey Community School have set their sights on eating more sustainable meals, by cutting down on their food miles, and growing their own vegetables.
Timber producers are invited to a health and safety day May 16 in Ferns, covering site and risk assessment, road access, best practice chainsaw use, work wear and forestry insurance cover with information from Teagasc, the Health and Safety Authority, FBD and Tree Care Ireland, all starting at 10 a.m. at Deanery Cottages in Ferns. Teagasc is set to hold an information evening on chalara fraxinea the fungus threatening ash tree stocks on May 30 at 8 p.m. in their offices in Enniscorthy.
All are invited to the Camolin, Ballycanew and Ballyoughter Parish mission which will take place on Saturday April 27th to Saturday May 4th.
A little school from County Wexford is making a big impression on a national competition. St Ibar's NS in Clohamon near Bunclody is in contention for major honours from the Eco UNESCO young environmentalist awards.
Ballygarrett Tidy Towns Scrap Metal day in conjunction with Ballygarrett/ Realt na Mara GAA Club. Venue GAA Complex on Saturday 20th April from 10.00am to 2.00pm.
A GREAT spectacle could be witnessed around the roads of Adamstown and surrounding townslands as the Shamrock Vintage Club set out on their sixth annual Pat Byrne Memorial Run.
'I started this organisation for personal reasons,' said Eamonn Doran, sitting in the comfortable and comforting surroundings of 'It's Good 2 Talk' at Iberius House in Wexford.
THE CORRIDORS of Gorey Shopping Centre were filled with activity recently, as the Gorey Youth Support Network held its second annual Youth Health Day.
An Enniscorthy couple presented a 'cuddle cot' in memory of their daughter to Wexford General Hospital last week.
The Camolin community is struggling to come to terms with the loss of little Lucy Ashling Dunbar (5), who died in her sleep overnight on Friday.
A public order conviction was recorded against man found so drunk that he could not stand without assistance.
A NEW Community Text Alert Scheme which was launched in Ballyduff last week, has already attracted over 300 members.
A 'DEPRAVED' man targeted by vigilantes after he sexually assaulted two little girls due to make their First Holy Communion was jailed for six years last Friday.
IT WAS another fantastic week for the NWSPCA. Buddah, Tuppence, Sophie and Ruby all set of on their new canine adventures. The cattery was also extremely busy, with Sammy, Fluff, Spring, Sunny, and Sabrina, along with five other young kittens, saying happy farewells.
Cannabis resin, cannabis plant material and a joint were discovered at a house in Gimont Avenue in Enniscorthy by Gardaí when they executed a search warrant in March of last year. The result was court appearances for David Kearney (29) of 124 Gimont Avenue and his neighbour Martin Carthy (25) of 131 Gimont Avenue.
THE FOCUS was on flowers when the volunteers with the Pride in Carnew committee held a special event in conjunction with An Taisce's National Spring Clean Week.
A Vietnamese man who was repsonsible for €240,000 worth of cannabis plants never took drugs in his life and had just been duped into looking after them, Wexford Circuit Court heard last week.
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