Record your life – with Jackie's help 

New Tayto bar – is it a hit or miss? 

Tuesday: The good woman had a surprise waiting for me when I got in from work today. It was one of the new Tayto chocolate bars. 'The shopkeeper had three boxes of them at 3pm and only two bars left shortly after tea-time,' she told me, and I couldn't help but be intrigued. The first thing I noticed was its size, diminutive when measured against a Dairy Milk bar, which is a piece of chocolate confectionery that I would slay dragons for.

Into the future on the Celtic Horizon 

David Medcalf

On the face of it, the Celtic Link ferry company is a minnow swimming with sharks. Its one-ship operation shares the pier at Rosslare Harbour with some the biggest names in the business, Stena and Irish Ferries.

Fifth Food and Wine Festival 

THE FIFTH Wexford Food and Wine Festival is due to take place between Friday, May 24, to Sunday, May 26.

Folk fundraiser 

A benefit concert in aid of the Niall Mellon Trust, featuring the Wexford Folk Orchestra, with guest Ger Busher and others, will take place this coming Thursday night, May 16 in Wexford Arts Centre.

Hot air balloons stir mental health debate 

WEXFORD-based counselling and psychotherapy service It's Good 2 Talk has unveiled a plan to get Wexford people talking about mental health as part of the nationwide Green Ribbon campaign to encourage open discussion on mental health.

It's fun to be fit 

THE FAYTHE School was literally a 'hive of activity' recently as 'Active School Week' was well and truly marked. From the minute the gates opened at 8.40 a.m. until the last activities finished well after 'home time' there were any amount of fun things for the children to participate in.

Making approach to Gorey beautiful 

WORK has started on planting some of the roundabouts on the approach roads to Gorey.

Rock volunteers get hard and heavy in war on litter 

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.

Chevron building strong links between Ireland and Nigeria 

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.

Ex-ambassador gets a welcome in home town 

Fintan Lambe

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.

Get fit and help cancer support 

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.

It really is all change in the berry business 

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.

Couple go public on donor sperm 

Fintan Lambe

A COUNTY Wexford couple have revealed how they took steps to start their family with the help of donor sperm insemination.

Spring is here and it's time for the clean-up! 

Fintan Lambe

VILLAGES around north Wexford are putting their best foot forward these days thanks to the hard working Tidy Towns volunteers.

Sound of music! 

Fintan Lambe

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.

TY students on set at RTÉ 

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.