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Reducing flying hours a 'matter of life or death for Wexford fishermen'

REDUCING THE flying hours of the Waterford-based search and rescue helicopter service is a 'matter of life and death for Wexford fishermen'.

Des Waters, S�amus Seery, Celestine Rafferty, Hazel Percival and Tom McDonald at the gathering.

Read the 'People' – right back to 1853

By Anne Marie O'CONNOR

A FULL COLLECTION of the Wexford People newspaper, dating back to 1853, is available for public perusal for the very first time in Wexford Library.

Jedward to join Vanilla Ice on Ross stage?

IRELAND'S X-FACTOR heroes Jedward will play a free, open-air show in New Ross – if talks this week between Dunbrody Festival organisers and the twins' management team are successful.

Furniture Depot closes down

ANOTHER WEXFORD business, Furniture Depot Kilkenny Ltd at Clonard Retail Park, has gone into voluntary liquidation due to the economic downturn.

Whittys: 'We didn't take law into our own hands'

STEPHEN Whitty Snr told Wexford District Court on Monday how he and his wife, who was recovering from cancer, returned home from holiday in July 2008 to find their house had been egged and their kittens strangled and hanging from the wing mirrors of their car in Michael J Sinnott Drive.

At the launch of the Faythe Harriers Pikeman Challange in Wexford Credit Union were (back, from left): David Maguire, CU; Joe Hore; Mick Keilthy; Annette Walsh; Joe Doyle; Ultan Ryan; Nicky Keeling; Luke Wadding, CU and Richard Murphy. Front: Ann...

Pikeman Challenge

WEXFORD HURLING side, the Faythe Harriers, are seeking hardy individuals who are prepared to embark a supreme challenge to make funds for the club.

Councillor intervenes in local clamping row

By Maria PEPPER

ford Borough Council as it wasn't covered by planning permission.

Horse by-law 'practically impossible' to enforce

THE MANNER in which some owners of horses look after their animals amounts to anti-social behaviour, according to councillor Paddy Kavanagh. The Enniscorthy man complained to Wexford County Council's meeting last week about horses being kept in housing estates. He said they were being allowed out at weekends to graze public areas in the estates.

Public hospital meeting as review deadline draws near

AS THE deadline looms for the release of a HSE review of hospital services, the general public is being urged to attend a public meeting about the future of Wexford General Hospital.

Fáilte Ireland to tackle grant shortfall at the Heritage Park

DIRECT support from Wexford County Council for the operation of the Irish National Heritage Park in Ferrycarrig has dropped from the ¤ 50,000 awarded last year to this year's annual allocation of ¤ 20,000.

Diarmuid Lyng showed nerves of steel to grab Wexford's equaliser.

Wexford display true grit to salvage point

IT'S NOT too often that a draw leaves a spring in the step, but that was a feeling shared by all Wexford followers in Cusack Park, Ennis, on Sunday last at the end of a pulsating Allianz Hurling League Division 2 clash which saw the visitors deny Clare victory with a rousing comeback.