Tuesday 21 May 2013
The Chairperson of the Wexford Branch of the National Campaign Against Home and Water Taxes (NCHWT) has defended the effectiveness of a recent demonstration, despite it being illegal and mainly affecting other ordinary citizens who were just trying to go about their business.
The Chairperson of the Wexford Branch of the National Campaign Against Home and Water Taxes (NCHWT) has defended the effectiveness of a recent demonstration, despite it being illegal and mainly affecting other ordinary citizens who were just trying to go about their business.
Dear Editor
Dear Editor,
'Just when you think it's safe to go back in the water' – the famous tag-line from the 'Jaws' films sprung to mind last week when the Boston Marathon bombing hit the news.
Saturday: This morning, the young lad arrived into the kitchen with his cupped hands full of coins. 'I want you to back two horses in the Grand National for me,' he explained, and I worried that he's been spending too much time in my company.
'There once was a little boy called Mick, who had a really bad temper. His mother Bernie gave him a bag of nails and told him that every time he lost his temper, he was to hammer a nail into the fence in the garden.
JUST OVER twelve months ago we were presented with the financial chaos that the county found itself in. There was condemnation at the special County Board meeting, there were speeches, voices of utter shock, but what has changed in the intervening period?
FOLLOWING the imposition of a property tax from the Government, each property in the country needs to be valued. Homeowners will be given the option of either accepting an estimate from the Revenue as to the value of their home, or submitting their own valuation to determine how much property tax they have to pay. It has become clear from the outset that anyone who undervalues their property will be hit with severe penalties which will be imposed by the taxman. The Revenue Commissioners have stated that they will police the payment of property tax, and the valuations put on houses by carrying out spot checks and comparing the values of houses in the same areas. It is thus of vital importance to ensure that you value your house accurately.
'THE LABOURER deserves his wages' is a familiar phrase from the Gospels that was uttered by Christ and repeated by St Paul in his letters. Those five words stand as the foundation of Catholic Social Teaching, and I remember well being lectured about it in college, and hearing about Pope Leo XIII's encyclical Rerum Novarum, and Pope John Paul II's 1991 encyclical Centesimus Annus.
HOPES have been building in Co. Wexford since the idea was first mooted last November, that US President Barack Obama might visit New Ross this summer to honour the county's most famous son, President John F Kennedy.
THE RECENT Budget has left, and will leave, none of us unaffected, but there has been concern that the most vulnerable should not be the hardest hit. The vulnerable in society have always been there in every age and culture.
WITH Christmas upon us I decided that a festive story from the memory banks would be apt to stir the festive mood.
I AM SURE that, like me, you have been to the cinema to watch one of those atmospheric and sometimes rather spine-chilling movies where the whole narrative seems to unfold in a darkened theatre on an essentially dark screen.
AT CHRISTMAS, we recall and celebrate that our Creator did not abandon us when we received from God the gift of life. We have no control over the circumstances of that life we have all received. There is often heartbreak, tragedy and suffering in its many forms.
AS YET MORE families around the country count the cost of flood damage to their homes after last week's downpours, it is becoming increasingly clear that local authorities have questions to answer about the planning process that saw so many houses being built in floodprone areas.
Wednesday: As you could attribute to many men of my generation, I grew up generalising that opera and all it stands for tailors to those with far more winters under their belts.
TWO IMPACT divisional conferences take place in Wexford on May 22 and 23.
A national alert asking the public to be on the lookout for a 17 year old girl living in the Oulart area was called off at the weekend.
ThE OVER the water area is extremely proud of its adopted son, Pat Whelan of Castlebridge, who last weekend bagged the prestigious 'Best Director' award in his debut at the RTE All-Ireland drama festival in Athlone.
SOLVING problems outside the box, that's what the 3rd year BA in Visual Communications students from the Wexford Campus of IT Carlow did for community groups in Wexford.
Musician Pierce Turner is basking in the warmth of a big Wexford hug after a Gathering weekend devoted to his music.
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.
MADELEINE Quirke, is Chief Executive of Wexford Chamber, one of 56 affiliated Chambers operating under the umbrella of Chambers Ireland.
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.
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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