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It may be many years since he was a big star of Wexford hurling but Tony Doran demonstrated this week that he is still a crowd puller when a big
attendance showed up in the Riverside park Hotel in Enniscorthy on Monday night for the launch of his autobiography 'A Land of Men and Giants
Cllr. Frank Staples said counSo it was either a ticket affair cillors should have been inor no fireworks, the Wexford formed of the situation. ‘As District Director Tony Larkin councillors were are expected told councillors at their October meeting. He also revealed to know what is going on’, he Delivering declared.homes in Co. Wexford than any other newspaper that the Council had a veryto more Cllr. Ger Carthy revealed that good working relationship there had been problems with the Festival Opera and ford ISSUE 99 Apr. 26th 2018 Follow us on Facebook 053 9123527 meeting all the licencing conrecognised the massive conweek ditions in previous years and tribution the festival made to over on one occasion everything the local economy. eft in had not been sorted out until It appears that the desire to ems the 11th hour. open- preserve this relationship Cllr. Lisa McDonald deceived meant that council officials were reluctant to hang festival scribed the whole affair as a realPR disaster but she appealed bosses out to dry on the matfault to everyone to allow children ter. The result was that counby enjoy the event on closing cillors got the blame and they night and stay away rather vented their anger over the , who than cause difficulties. issue this week. Mayor Jim Moore issued a Councillors Anthony Kelly toAbove:Tony similar plea calling for no and Davy Hynes led the obshares a joke so that charge. Kelly said athe organ- a nastiness d to if theAli family was ‘given an the area at up to 30% would be ‘How do we avoid a Drumgoold public airing to people many ofcould the therewith plan to build €600,000 enjoy the family that inch’ isers had a fiasco’ hold which haveoccasion been raised three‘created unit housing solu- concerns too high if the plan went ahead situation developing in BarnPendergast,The is thethe fireworks. over the Hynes of about ce in problems associated Cllr. Anthony Donohoe also and he said there were many town’. tiontickets for theand members Ballagh. Right: Director Services fact thatfamily councilks dis- anslammed puttingofthree moreTony traveller expressed concerns about the examples around the county of The traveller family in quesextendedthe traveller at with Tonyand with young Larkininsaid he believed the lors werewill never consulted on families anproposal said he was sup- the problems created when too tion presented as homeless a an area which already Barntown have to be votsupporter Ruth ticketing would be a once off the matter and he described it was ed through by councillors from has a high concentration of trav- porting the decision by Wexford many traveller families were lo- year ago. Despite the social solution and would not be re- councillors was a the ‘slap in the face’ forfol- ellers. s at Fenlonto reject the plan. housing crises and long waiting outside Wexford District cated in one place. in 2018.Head of Hous- Cllr. Pip Breen said the con- This was a point also made by list they can move ahead of other publicthe representatives. The Council’s lowing unanimous rejection peated
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Wexford and Gorey councillors say ‘no’ to Banrtown proposal
REVOLT OVER €600,000 PLAN TO HOUSE TRAVELLER FAMILY A
of the proposal by local councillors. And the Wexford councillors have been joined in their opposition to the project by councillors in Gorey who voted six votes to one against the project. There was no public discussion on the matter when it came years of beforeAfter Wexford councillors but their colleagues action in Gorey gave complaints is to be
ing, Padraig O’Gorman, who brought forward the plan said the sites being provided were larger than normal as specified under government guidelines for traveller specific accommodation. Cllr. Robbie Ireton said there was plenty of space at the rear of the houses for a large number of Districtand Council caravans mobilethat homes and heretexturing warned they would appear of the surface
centration of traveller families in
Cllr. Malcolm Byrne who asked
people on the list because there
is a special budget for traveller specific accommodation and a legal requirement on the local authority to meet their needs. The final decision on the matter will be made at the May meeting of the full Co. Council when a close vote on the matter is expected.
Main Street work may start before Christmas
taken to deal with the and the replacement of problem of Wexford Main some of the gullies, Street’s slippery surface. particularly in North There have been Main Street is planned. complaints for years The plan has not yet about people suffering been finalised but it could injuries on the street but start very soon and is there has never been an likely to take place before acceptance that there is Christmas. any problem with the Council officials are surface. Now, however, anxious to avoid any work to tackle the issue disruption of the retail may begin before trade and plan to Christmas. undertake the work either District Director Tony in the evening or with a TheLarkin Mahon Dance School held a fashion show in the each Ashdown Park in told the October 5.30am start Gorey but before things got underway Eddie Murphy and meeting of the Municipal morning.
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