Friday 24 May 2013
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
LOOKING FOR a third title in a row, Shamrock Rovers emerged from this game as worthy champions with two second-half goals helping them to clinch the crown by seeing off nearest challengers North End United in clinical fashion in this crucial Premier Division game played at Belvedere on Sunday 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.
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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