Alley in different league as Gorey feel the pain
BUFFERS ALLEY looked like a team on a serious mission in Farmleigh on Friday last: to get out of the second tier as swiftly and as smoothly as possible.
BUFFERS ALLEY looked like a team on a serious mission in Farmleigh on Friday last: to get out of the second tier as swiftly and as smoothly as possible.
THREE LATE points helped Blackwater to a deserved victory over Rathgarogue-Cushinstown in The Courtyard Ferns Intermediate hurling championship Group A game at Bree on Saturday last.
DUFFRY ROVERS won the Slaney camogie festival Roinn 1 crown in Farmleigh with a seven-point win over Oylegate-Glenbrien.
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.
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.
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.
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.
WING-FORWARD Seán Stafford proved the key man for St. Martin's as he inspired his side's second-half recovery to an eventual two-point victory over Rathnure in this excellent Under-21 hurling Premier championship quarter-final at Piercestown on Bank Holiday Monday.
THE WEXFORD Minor footballers gave the appreciative crowd in Bellefield on Wednesday last a huge lift when they battled back twice from four-point deficits in the second-half before grabbing a brace of memorable late scores to pip Louth in this highly-entertaining Electric Ireland Leinster championship losers' section clash.
ADAMSTOWN FIRED the final five points against 14-man Starlights to claim an opening round Group B win in the Tom Doyle Supplies Senior football championship at O'Kennedy Park, New Ross, on Saturday last.
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CROSSABEG-BALLYMURN made the leap from Junior 'A' ranks to Junior in impressive fashion in Killurin on Saturday last, and the fact that near neighbours Blackwater were their first victims made it all the sweeter.
COUNTY CHAMPIONS St. Anne's got their 2013 Tom Doyle Supplies Senior football championship off to a flying start with a facile win over a struggling Duffry Rovers in O'Kennedy Park on Saturday last.
FETHARD FIELDED one of the youngest teams ever seen in Senior championship football in this Tom Doyle Supplies Group B opener in Taghmon on Friday last and reaped rich rewards as they recorded a fully-deserved seven-point win over a disjointed Sarsfields side.
FETHARD'S PERFORMANCE on Friday night made them the talk of the county, but that only lasted 24 hours as Kilanerin stole their thunder with a sensational win over keenest rivals Castletown in the biggest shock of the weekend.
THE 2013 local football championships kicked off last weekend with a host of entertaining matches at all levels. Last year's champions, St. Anne's, along with Kilanerin and Horeswood were the most impressive performers, and will no doubt be involved at the business end of the season.
'I knew nothing about fish,' admits John Kenny, harking back to the days when he first joined Atlantis Seafoods back in 1997, when it was a three-men-and-a-van operation. 'If you want to learn something, you learn quick. I could write a book about fish now.'
COUNTY WEXFORD is starting to make real progress on job creation, says Minister Richard Bruton.
WITH work due to start shortly on the new Meadows & Byrne lifestyle centre at Drinagh, a Wexford town business is again questioning the basis under which it is being allowed to trade.
THE 865 Wexford people who died in World War One will for the first time be commemorated at an official ceremony in Wexford town later this month.
A century-old tradition was kept enthusiastically alive at the weekend as the Blackwater Eucharistic procession went through the village - just as it has every summer for the past 100 years without a break.
Five County Wexford voluntary groups have won train trips with Iarnród Eireann in the rail company's 'The Journey's On Us' competition.
WEXFORD shoppers are being invited to sample the best of home grown and Irish products at Tesco Wexford Extra as a part of their 'Homegrown in Ireland' campaign.
THE POPULARITY of the late county councillor Leo Carthy was on view for all to see in his home turf of Our Lady's Island at the weekend.
A Wexford councillor has offered to mediate in a planning dispute between the owner of a creche and neighbouring residents in a cul-de-sac.
THE Wexford Campus of IT Carlow hosted an international conference on the benefits of lifelong opportunities for mature students at its campus at Summerhill.