Ireland’s parliament has passed all stages of a bill to guarantee the loans of all Irish Banks as the international credit crunch bites. Ireland’s lower and upper houses (Dail & Seánad) sat through the night for the first time in...
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Adam Carroll is to join motorsport's superstars in the Race of Champions at Wembley Stadium on December 14. The Portadown 25-year-old, who has propelled Team Ireland into the lead in the A1GP series, is to take his place alongside Lewis...
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exford County Board has put a selection committee in place to select a new Senior Hurling Manager...Board representatives, Philip Howlin (Duffry Rovers) and Toss Ryan (St. Anne's) in addition to former Wexford Manager John Conran (Rathnure), Michael Dempsey (Cuala and...
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Waterford 's All- Ireland final nightmare against Kilkenny , Davy Fitzgerald received a phone call from an old friend. Former Sixmilebridge and Clare team-mate Danny Chaplin wanted Fitzgerald to take a few training sessions with Broadford, Chaplin's intermediate side.
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Each October since 1951, the pretty Irish waterfront town has staged a festival of little-known works in the cramped confines of its antique Theatre Royal. Like the audience, and the sets, the conductor had to enter down the aisle, there...
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THE skies lit up with magical fireworks and 20,000 people came out to watch. For a brief few hours in Wexford last Thursday night, there was no recession. There was just the Opera Festival and a dazzling pyrotechnic display which...
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Charlie Flanagan, the party's spokesman on Justice, Equality and Law Reform, said the recent upsurge of gangland killings, including the murder of innocent bystander Shane Geoghegan in Limerick, was the greatest threat to the state since the civil war.
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Fine Gael is mounting an early start to next year's Local and European elections at its national conference in Wexford Town. Leader Enda Kenny has lashed out at the Government for what he says is its complete lack of direction...
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The latest Red C opinion poll in the Sunday Business Post showed that Fianna Fáil had gained four percentage points to 30% in the past month but that Fine Gael climbed two to 35%. Labour and the Greens were each...
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The Taoiseach will break ground this morning at the site of Coca-Cola's new �200m factory in Wexford. The manufacturing and innovation facility will be situated on a 41-acre site in the IDA Business and Technology Park. It is expected that...
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