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Top Stories | Tuesday, March 09, 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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Junkets cost us €80,000
ENNISCORTHY COUNCILLORS travelled in style during the boom years, spending vast amounts of taxpayers’ cash in some of the world’s most exclusive destinations, according to documents released to the Echo under the Freedom of Information Act.
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More News | Tuesday, March 09, 2010
Molly will be missed by all
A KINDLY, devoted family woman and highlyesteemed neighbour passed to her eternal reward with the death on Sunday February 21 of Molly Britton, 9 Mill Park Road, Enniscorthy.
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Enniscorthy should go bananas for noble cause
HOW A town like Enniscorthy can help a global movement having massive impact on the lives of people in some of the world’s poorest countries was spelled out at a gathering in the town last week.
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Fire-y launch for our 1500th birthday big celebrations
IT’S FINALLY here Enniscorthy 1500, which this weekend sees the official start of the town’s marking of its millenniumand-a-half of existence, thanks to St. Senan’s arrival to set up the first settlement here in AD 510.
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Wages paid out
WHAT IS being described as ‘a substantial amount’ of outstanding wages and salaries have been paid to staff of an Enniscorthy private nursing home, in the wake of discussions on ongoing problems for staff in this area.
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Duo write own musical
WHEN YOU have musical talent, ideas and a leaning towards stage production, there’s only one obvious thing to do write your very own musical.
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Tóibín heads for Chicago
BEST-SELLING ‘Brooklyn’, the acclaimed novel of writer Colm Tóibín, continues to make headlines, and next month will make some in the USA itself.
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All set for concert MS fundraiser
FOR THE third year running, the local branch of the Multiple Sclerosis Society Ireland holds a fundraising concert in the Riverside Park Hotel, the show going ahead there this coming Tuesday night March 9, curtain up 8 p.m.
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From Ferns to Costa acclaim
IT STARTED off sixty years ago with humble origins in a village in the heart of Co. Wexford.
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Banks treat customers with contempt - meeting
ONE PERSON appealed for optimism but it’s hard to be cheery when you wake up every morning fearful that your house is about to be repossessed.
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Death of Patrick ‘Urney’ Byrne
FAMILY AND a wide circle of friends throughout Enniscorthy and Wexford were mourning the passing this week, at the aged of 61, of Patrick Byrne, affectionately and widely-known to one and all by the popular sobriquet ‘Urney.’
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Chile earthquake strands local trio
THREE MEMBERS of an Enniscorthy family have been left stranded thousands of miles from home following the massive earthquake in Chile at the weekend.
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Junkets cost us €80,000
ENNISCORTHY COUNCILLORS travelled in style during the boom years, spending vast amounts of taxpayers’ cash in some of the world’s most exclusive destinations, according to documents released to the Echo under the Freedom of Information Act.
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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.
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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