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Top Stories | Wednesday, March 10, 2010


     Please sir… I want some more

THE BISHOP has called on his flock to dig deep for the diocese, by helping to pay crippling costs for payoffs from the sexual abuse here.
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Crime spree in North Wexford

RESIDENTS AND business owners will be wary following the third armed robbery taking place in north Wexford within a week.
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More News | Wednesday, March 10, 2010

School bank heads to regional finals

SIX STUDENTS from Gorey Community School will head to regional finals of a banking competition next week.  more >

HSE fails to deliver primary care team

NO HSE PRIMARY care teams are fully operational in Wexford although the HSE has committed to establishing 17 by 2011.  more >

Calls for Avenue to be repaired

A GOREY town councillor has called on developers to return one of the town’s main streets to its former glory.  more >

Ivory’s closed it doors

THIS WEEK saw an institution on Gorey’s Main Street shut its doors, 68 years after first opening.  more >

Creative side to the fore

THE WEALTH of artistic talent in the Gorey area could lead to permanent links being forged with Gorey in the coming months and years.  more >

Israeli ambassador visits Market House

THE ISRAELI Ambassador to Ireland visited Gorey last week to try and foster tourism and business links with north Wexford.  more >

Cruelty call-outs doubled in 2009

AN ANIMAL rights organisation attended 111 call outs on cruelty cases in 2009, the highest recorded figure, and double the number for the previous 12 months.  more >

Gorey Heartsafe - The Full Story

ACCORDING TO the Irish Heart Foundation website, “about 70% of all sudden cardiac arrests happen out of the hospital, in the presence of a family member or friend.” Denis Maguire, founder of Gorey Heartsafe says that knowing how to do C.P.R.  more >

Festival launch at Gorey Little Theatre

THE 54TH SOUTH Leinster Drama Festival was launched last week with a varied and exciting line-up of plays.  more >

Theatre honours quartet

AT LAST WEEK’S launch of the 54th South Leinster Drama Festival, four people were honoured for their years of commitment to the Gorey Little Theatre Group.  more >

Man found in burnt-out car

WHILE THE body of a man found in a burnt out car in a remote area of Wicklow has yet to be formally identified, it is believed to be that of a Ballymoney man.  more >

Man dies on soccer pitch

A MAN in his early fifties collapsed and died on Saturday night last having just finished a game of five-a-side soccer.  more >



NCT reduction not passed on

WEXFORD MOTORISTS are still paying 21.5per cent VAT for their NCT certificates, even though the VAT rate was due to be reduced to 21per cent in January, The Echo can reveal.  more >

Schools braced for loss of SNAs

SCHOOL PRINCIPALS across county Co. Wexford are bracing themselves for the imminent loss of Special Needs Assistants (SNAs) after a spending review by the Department of Education.  more >

Meteroic win

WEXFORD DJ Leigh Doyle’s head was left spinning after he picked up a Meteor award for Best Regional DJ recently.  more >

Councillors spent €80,000 on travel abroad shock

WEXFORD’S COUNTY councillors travelled in style during the boom years, splashing out rate payers’ cash on limousine hire, five-star hotels, and gourmet meals, the Echo can exclusively reveal.  more >

Glitz and glamour at the Waldorf Astoria

THERE SEEMS to have been considerable interest among councillors when a trip to New York was organised in 2007.  more >

The councillor, his wife and four weeks in Australia…

DREARY ECONOMISTS were using the ‘R’ word, recession, in early 2008 but, like Bertie Ahern, Wexford county council thought the “boom was getting boomer”.  more >

Jimmy Curtis and his €11,000 luxury travel

CLLR. CURTIS was county council chairman in 2006 and took every opportunity to travel abroad that year the further afield the better.  more >

Armed raiders rob post office

TWO MEN with sawn-off shot guns stole a substantial amount of money from Kilmuckridge Post Office last Wednesday afternoon.  more >

Injured woman (59) denied home help

A FERNS woman who seriously injured her back in an accident, is not entitled to home help because she is one year under the HSE cut-off age of 60.  more >

Burglaries down 6%

WEXFORD WAS one of the only counties in the country to record a decrease in burglaries last year.  more >



 

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