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Wife beaten in front of her dying husband
A WOMAN who assaulted her sister in-law in front of her dying husband is to be assessed for community service on the orders Judge David Anderson at a special sitting of the district court yesterday.
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Protest against Carnew Library cuts
02 February 2012
THE NEWS that Carnew Library is facing cuts in hours and the loss of a full time librarian was met with protest this week as nearly 100 concerned locals and politicians turned out at a public meeting to oppose the Wicklow County Council decision.
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India sights for girls
02 February 2012
GOREY GIRLS Ciara Kinsella and Orla Casey have their hearts set on spending a month in India this summer volunteering and working with children.
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Entrepreneur call
02 February 2012
ENTERPRISE IRELAND has announced the first round of funding for 2012 and is seeking submissions from ICT and Industrial sector start-ups.
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GCS students meet President
02 February 2012
A GROUP of students and teachers from Gorey Community School had the honour of attending the annual Holocaust Memorial Day Commemoration on Sunday in the Mansion House, Dublin, where they met President Higgins.
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Gorey INTO fear closure of schools
02 February 2012
EDUCATION CUTS announced in December’s budget hold an axe above several small rural schools in North Wexford.
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Supermarkets in Seafood Circle
02 February 2012
TWO SUPERMARKETS in Gorey and Wexford have been granted membership into the elite BIM Seafood Circle for 2012.
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Put money on-line
02 February 2012
CLLR. MALCOLM Byrne has said that local authorities in Wexford should follow the example of Cork City Council and publish online the details of all aspects of the income and expenditure of those local authorities, including Councillors' expenses.
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Kiera wows The Voice judges
02 February 2012
GOREY GIRL Kiera Byrne has reason to be smiling having made it past the blind audition stage of RTE's newest talent search 'The Voice of Ireland.’
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Jade (13) is set to undergo landmark operation
02 February 2012
A WEXFORD teenager will be the first person in Ireland to undergo major surgery to cure juvenile arthritis when she travels to Newcastle for three months in April for a radical bone marrow operation.
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ECHO LIVE: 'There's even worse to come'
02 February 2012
IF IRISH people are shocked by the prospect of the nation's households being asked to pay a Govt. levy of €100 property tax, official predictions have indicated that they can expect to be paying in the region of €1,000-€1,400 in 2014, the Enniscorthy meeting was told.
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Victim’s family’s horror at Jason’s violent death
02 February 2012
THE HEARTBROKEN family of Jason Ryan (27) have described their horror and devastation at learning of his brutal death in Hollyville Heights in the early hours of Wednesday morning.
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Gardaí who defied bosses and stood up for their rights
02 February 2012
A GROUP of brave former members of An Garda Siochána, including one Wexfordman, have been publicly and officially honoured by their superiors for their part in a landmark event fifty years earlier simply, that they stood up for the just rights of the ordinary serving Gardaí of the day.
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Homes with high levels of cancer
02 February 2012
TWENTY TWO per cent of Wexford homes recently tested for radon were found to have high levels of the cancer-causing gas, according to figures released by the Radiological Protection Institute of Ireland (RPII).
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Eucharistic Bell comes to Wexford
02 February 2012
THE VISIT of the Eucharistic Congress Bell caused a stir in Wexford recently as schools and visitors came from all over to see it.
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Recession? Not if you are a County Councillor
02 February 2012
WEXFORD’S COUNTY councillors claimed a whopping €138,582.09 in expenses last year, while the biggest earners were all from Fine Gael, figured obtained by The Echo can reveal.
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On-line knowledge helps pay the bills
02 February 2012
NEW TECHNOLOGY may be old hat for those well-versed in it (or should that be in IT?), but at one stage the idea of finding out about the world of online was a daunting, even intimidating prospect for a group of people from around the county.
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Keith Barry wows at Wexford Opera House
02 February 2012
AWARD-WINNING MENTALIST Keith Barry astounded a capacity crowd at Wexford Opera House on Sunday January 22nd with his new show, ‘8 Deadly Sins’.
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Dismay at cuts
02 February 2012
FIANNA FAIL TD John Browne has described the government’s decision cut guidance counsellors in 700 schools across the country as “extremely regressive”.
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Much needed relief in crisis
02 February 2012
GOVERNMENT CHIEF WHIP Paul Kehoe TD, in this column, believes that the Personal Insolvency Bill published this week by Ministers Alan Shatter and Michael Noonan is a key step in solving our mortgage debt crisis.
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Coffee morning for fire victims
02 February 2012
A NEW Ross Town Councillor is organising a coffee morning in aid of those affected by the devastating fire which ripped through the Kennedy Plaza apartment complex in New Ross.
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