Saturday 25 May 2013
Dominican College Wicklow and Loreto College Bray competed last Tuesday in the 3rd Trampoline Inter Schools Cup competition held in Dominican College Wicklow. Over 50 girls competed and the standards were very high.
Rathnew left Eire Og chasing shadows in Greystones on Saturday as they secured the win that keeps them breathing down Baltinglass' neck.
The Wicklow Senior hurling team were not the only squad having a good weekend. While the Senior team defeated Mayo in the Christy Ring qualifier match on Saturday the U-15 hurling development squad had a very good win over St. Judes of Dublin in a challenge match played in Bray on Sunday morning last. Having already defeated Cuala this year this young Wicklow team again performed well scoring 4-13 to St Judes 1-08. Best players on the day were Martin Murphy (Carnew Emmets), Rhys Devlin (Glenealy),George O'Connor (St. Patricks), Jack McCaul (Barndarrig), Eoin Duffy (Bray) Conor Toole and Ryan Heffernan both (Kilcoole).
Molodom Star is now ready for re-homing. Please contact Claire at the IHWT office at 0402 30773 if you are interested in re-homing him.
Hollywood made the journey across the hills on Saturday and were well rewarded for their journey with a brace of points that keeps them right up there with the leaders in Division 1 of the Campus Oil League.
Carnew had to battle every inch of the way against a steadily improving Ballinacor team before securing the points in this game, played at Carnew on Tuesday evening.
Sligo Rovers suffered an unexpected stumble as relegation candidates Bray Wanderers claimed a point off the champions.
The girls from Colaiste Bhride had every reason to celebrate as they brought back the Wicklow Senior Camogie Cup to Carnew after a great victory over St Kevin's in the final at Kiltegan on Tuesday of last week.
Christy Ring Cup Second Round
County manager Eddie Sheehy came under fire for his role on the board of Wicklow Enterprise Park Ltd (WEP) on Monday.
Chairman of Wicklow County Council, Cllr. Pat Casey, said he had been invited onto the board of Wicklow Enterprise Park Ltd, an invitation which he had accepted. He said his 'decision was not an easy one when one looks at the difficult backdrop of the company'.
The recent fodder crisis has left many dairy farmers in heavy debt as they struggled to feed their herd during the harsh winter weather.
A man was brought to hospital last week after his jeep crashed in to a wall at Killarney Road.
The need to use local labour and local suppliers on the Arklow Rathnew road work project was highlighted at Monday's meeting of Wicklow County Council.
Just 60 jobs were created in Wicklow by the IDA last year through foreign investment according to the latest figures.
IFA Animal Health Chairman John Waters said the BVD scheme will fail to meet its objectives if the Minister for Agriculture does not provide the supports and incentives to encourage the disposal of PI calves.
Wicklow's most famous resident, Daniel Day Lewis, was raising the profile of the Wicklow Hospice at the 2013 American Ireland Fund Gala last week.
A Greystones financial trader is suing Permanent TSB, claiming it knew he needed about €100,000 last March to meet margin calls – which are required to bring up the value of an investment following a decrease below a certain level – from his broker because the bank had previously advanced funds to him to meet such margin calls.
Local filmmaker Richard Waters and producer Alison Scarff have just returned from the Newport Beach Film Festival in LA where Richard's debut feature The O'Briens premiered to a sold-out crowd.
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