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Wexford goes Stateside for St. Patrick’s Day

Council heads to US in search of jobs, investment and tourists

Two high powered Wexford Co. Council delegations are to jet off across the Atlantic next week in a bid to use the St. Patrick’s Day festivities in the United States as a platform to lure investment, jobs and tourists to Co. Wexford.

Co Council Chairman Tony Dempsey will be joined by one senior official when he travels to New York at the invitation of the Wexfordmen’s Association. Cllr.

Dempsey will attend the St. Patrick’s Day Parade and will use the visit to promote Wexford through a meeting with the IDA in New York.

He will also meet with John Fitzpatrick Chair of the Ireland Fund in addition to the CEIO of the organisation, Kieran McLoughlin.

A second delegation will leave Wexford as part of the St. Patrick’s week economic initiative. This will be led by the Council’s Vice Chair,

Kathleen Codd Nolan and the Chair of the Council’s Economic SPC, Michael Sheehan and include the Council’s Chief Executive Tom Enright and Director of Services Tony Larkin.

Responding to queries about the trips at a Council meeting this week Mr Enright confirmed that the Council would foot the bill for the travel.

He also stressed the importance of the visits in the con-

text of the priority which he has given to the economic development of the country and he provided details of what will be a breathtaking round of engagements for those involved in the trip to Savannah, Georgia.

This delegation will concentrate on developing economic and tourism links with a view that significant opportunities exist to establish such links in the region.

Savannah has a population

of 140,000 which is similar to Co. Wexford but it has a huge tourism turnover annually and the Wexford delegation will be hoping that they can bring home some tourism ideas from the area to implement locally.

The round of meetings which have been set up in Atlanta and Savannah include briefings with the IDA, Tech Groups, local business leaders, investment organisations, local universi-

ties and cultural groups.

Despite their packed schedule the delegation will be able to take time out to attend two St. Patrick’s Day Parades.

While there had been some unease about the scale of the proposed visits at the start of the March meeting of the Co. Council this week, when the full details of the trip were revealed there was unanimous backing for it to go ahead.

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Weight waste charge attacked Three days of prayer at Cathedral

Members of Wexford Co. Council have asked the new government to scrap the plans to introduce a pay by weight system for refuse collection.

The new system, which is due to come into effect at the beginning of July was approved by the outgoing Minister for the Environment, Alan Kelly, just prior to the general election.

But Independent Councillor, Davy Hynes, strongly attacked the plans at a Council meeting saying they could create even more hardship for poorer families. Cllr Hynes was

Three days of prayer to mark THE YEAR OF MERCY begian at St. Aidan's Cathedral in Enniscorthy. on Tuesday morning.

Bishop's Secretary Fr. John Carroll described it as "Ferns' opportunity to join with the universal Church to mark the invitation of Pope Francis to preach a core Gospel value (MERCY) in today's world."

particularly critical of the proposal to charge for recycling bins by weight saying it would put a huge burden on low income families.

He was supported by his Independent colleague Mary Farrell who said the new charging system would lead to an increase in illegal dumping on country roads.

The book now disappearing!

Within the next few weeks E-Books will be available from all Co. Wexford Libraries. It will be possible to download E-books and Audio-books onto a PC/Laptop via the website or on a mobile devise via the borrow box app.

The loan period will be for three weeks after which time the item will disappear. There are now over 5,000 items available to download.

Over the three days, various speakers - local and national - will participate and Confessions will be heard throughout concluding on Thursday at 8.30pm.

An invitation has been issued to all parishes to participate, over 10,000 specially designed candles

and prayer cards have been distributed to churches throughout the diocese and Bishop Brennan has issued a Pastoral Letter to mark the occasion.

Timetable People are invited to come and to participate in some or all of the services.

Confessions will be heard throughout the three days.

Bring your mercy candle along and have it blessed.

Three Days of Grace and Pray – 8th to 10th March Wednesday 9th 10am Mass: Celebrant/ Preacher; Fr Billy Swan

3.00pm Service of Anointing of the Sick: Fr Oliver Sweeney and Mick Kavanagh (The Hope Centre) 7.30pm Service of Reconciliation with individual confession: Bishop Denis Brennan Guest Speaker Fr John Harris OP Thursday 10th 10am Mass: Celebrant/Preacher; Fr Brian Broaders 7.30pm Service of Reconciliation with individual confession; Come and join Fr Odhran and Fr Billy at the parish celebration of First Penance in the Cathedral.

Pay grant to landlords The Department of Social Protection should pay grants for the payment of a deposit on rental accommodation directly to landlords, People Before Profit councillor Deirdre Wadding has suggested.

Cllr Wadding said the problem at the moment was that the once off grant was only paid when an applicant had secured accommodation but no landlord was going to provide rented accommodation in the

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She suggested that if the Department of Social Protection paid the grant directly to landlords it would overcome the problem.

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Rising ceremonies kick off in Ferns

A section of the attendance at the ceremony.

Across the county over the next few months remembrance events and celebrations to mark the centenary of the 1916 Rising will take place in towns, villages and even on crossroads as locals gather to remember the part played by

people from their own locality in the fight for Irish Freedom.

Last weekend the countywide events kicked off when Ferns hosted the first major commemoration of the Rising in the county.

Like other locations the people of Ferns were rremem-

Bernadette Moulds who represented Descendants when she unveiilded the Monument while Mary Ffrench and Martin Dunbar laid wreaths.

Gorey District Council Vice Chairman, Pip Breen was joined by other representative at the head of the parade.

bering their own and the part they played in the events of one hundred years ago.

Locals turned out in force for the occasion which was organised by the Gorey Municipal District Council.

The Vice Chair of the Council, Pip Breen presided

at the event and addressed the attendance. He was joined by two recently elected TDs, Michael D'Arcy and James Browne in addition to several members of the Co. Council who joined the parade through the village.

There was music and various

participants in period costume to add to the occasion which saw the unveiling of a special commemorative stone by some of the decendants of those from the area who participated in the Rising.

The honour of unveiling the momument went to

Bernadette Moulds while Mary Ffrench and Martin Dunbar laid wreats at the newly unveiled monument representating all the surviving relatives in the area of those who took part in the events of one hundred years ago.

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Council to provide details of how it is to tackle housing crisis

Members of Wexford Co. Council are to be given a detailed presentation on exactly what plans the local authority has to deal with the county’s housing crisis next month.

The presentation and response from councillors is expected to lay bare the stark reality of the chronic situation which exists in terms of the Council’s response to the problem with a growing level of frustration among members over the lack of detail in terms of the exact plans for each area of the county.

Councillors have found it difficult to establish exactly how many keys will be handed over to those on the waiting list.

The call for a full presentation on the situation came from Wexford’s Mayor Ger Carthy at the March meeting of the Co. Council this week. His request came after Cllr Malcolm Byrne had raised serious concerns about the situation in North Wexford where there are no plans to construct any new Council homes this year.

In all a total of just thirty seven new Council builds are currently in the pipeline with

twenty six of them in Clonard in Wexford and a further eleven in the Enniscorthy Municipal District.

That means that there are no plans to build any houses in North Wexford where the problem is most acute.

Cllr Byrne expressed his frustration over the situation in North Wexford and said the housing problem in the area was now the worst it had ever been. Apart from the lack of social housing there is also a chronic shortage of private dwellings to let and this is causing additional problems.

Chief Executive Tom Enright provided some details of the Council’s recent efforts in the area including the invitation to developers to build social houses in the county. Wexford is the first Council to take this step and Mr Enright expressed the view that the initiative had great potential because it offered developers an avenue back into construction and a

mechanism to generate cash flow.

He also revealed that the Council was now involved in hiring the specialist staff required to enable it to get back into the business of house construction. In recent years staffs in this area have all left the local authority.

Cllr Deirdre Wadding said the proposal to construct just thirty seven houses when there were four thousand people on the waiting list was simply too

small a number and she also called for an increase in the number of social houses which developers had to build as part of any development.

Cllr Davy Hynes said the shortage of housing was the great problem of our time and it would not be tackled unless the local authority got back to building houses on a large scale. He called on the next government to launch a massive house building programme in the country.

New headache for event organisers The detailed Event Management Plans which organisers of outdoor events now have to put in place are in danger of driving some events indoors while local communities may be forced to scrap other events completely.

That was the warning this week from Fianna Fail councillor Barbara Ann Murphy, who told councillors that she had spent six hours completing the plan for the Bunclody St. Patrick’s

Day Parade.

The level of detail required was very time consuming and off-putting for community groups and could force some community groups to scrap plans for outdoor events across the county.

But Director of Services Eamonn Hore said the document was drawn up to ensure that the organisers of events in public places were fully aware of their responsibilities.

Glastonbury comes to Enniscorthy An impromptu roadside Horse Fair which looked like something you would see at the Glastonbury Festival took place on the N11 at Enniscorthy last weekend, according to Cllr Paddy Kavanagh who attacked the failure of the authorities to do anything to halt the event which he said had put lives at risk.

Cllr Kavanagh said that if

you left an abandoned car on the side of the N11 action would be taken within hours but the roads authority had taken no action to deal with the ‘fair’ which took up parking spaces including at the bus stop on Templeshannon Quay.

He denounced the fact that the event was not tackled by either the Gardai or the NRA.

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Gorey Musical Society launch ‘Oliver’ If the launch night is anything to go by then audiences in Gorey are in for a treat next month when the local Musical Society stages ‘Oliver’ in the Little Theatre hall.

There was plenty of top class entertainment from cast members when details of the show were announced at the launch night in the Loc Garman Arms.

The show will be staged from April 10th. to 16th. and cast members are currently very busy in rehearsals for what promises to be a top class event.

The Society also used the occasion of the launch to honour four of their long serving members. Being recognised on the night were Thelma Rath, Cathy Quirke, Paul Doran and Frank Byrne.

Now the entire cast and all members of the group have their sights firmly set on opening night-------April 10th.

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Abbie Teal, Wasini O Neill and Caitriona O Neill.

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Enniscorthy to stage ‘Seussical the Musical’

Colaiste Bride Sports Hall will be the venue for Enniscorthy Musical Society’s production of ‘Seussical the Musical’ which is their chosen show for 2015.

The show is based on the books of Dr Seuss, with wonderful songs by Stephen Flahery and Lynn Ahrens, and features many familiar characters including Horton the Elephant, the Cat in the Hat and the Grinch along with those miniature citizens of Whoville.

The show is being produced in association with Enniscorthy Credit Union and it was launched recently at the Credit Union premises.

There are over fifty adults and children in the show with several new faces joining the cast this year including Paul Walsh who plays the narrator of the show while Wexford based TY student Emily Brazzill plays Mary Dobbs and Pat O’ Shea, Chairman of Enniscorthy Gertrude. Emily is having a busy year having played lead Credit Union. roles in both Oyster Lane and Wexford Panto productions in the recent past.

But there are many regulars taking part as well including Therese Canavan Bolger and Eryn Buckley who will be playing the parts of Mayzie and Jojo while Marian O’Leary and her daughter Emma will play on-stage mother and daughter duo Sour Kangaroo and Baby Kangaroo.

This colourful, feel-good musical will appeal to all ages and is a celeb ration of friendship, love and kindness with a generous helping of imagination thrown in.

Pat O Shea,Chairman Enniscorthy Credit Union presIt runs from Tuesday March ents the show sponsorship to Liz Armstrong who is 29th. To Saturday April 2nd. pictured with cast members

10,000 expected to attend Enniscorthy Easter Monday State Ceremony Wexford County Council staff are busily preparing the town of Enniscorthy for what many believe will be the largest ever civic event and State Ceremony to be held in the town.

Enniscorthy was one of just four towns outside of Dublin to “rise” in 1916 and the last town in Ireland to surrender. Enniscorthy has hosted annual Easter Monday celebrations to remember and celebrate the town’s historic role during the 1916 Rising.

This year’s 28 March Easter Monday Centenary Celebrations in Enniscorthy are the result of years of careful and deliberate planning and the scale, extent and spectacle of these centenary celebrations are expected to attract thousands of spectators from across Wexford and further afield, all seeking to be part of a truly historic day.

The Backroads to the Ris-

ing Programme is currently taking place in many rural villages within the hinterland of Enniscorthy. This unique project will conclude this Easter Monday morning when almost 500 men and women will walk or cycle into Enniscorthy to participate in the centenary celebrations, in doing so following in the footsteps of the hundreds of volunteers who travelled to Enniscorthy back in 1916 from all over County Wexford to join their comrades in support of the Enniscorthy Rising.

More than 10,000 spectators and participants are expected to be in Enniscorthy on Easter Monday. The celebrations commence at 11.30am with the 1916 Centenary Parade from St. Aidan’s Cathedral to the Seamus Rafter Statue, Abbey Square, pausing at The Athenaeum for the raising of the famous En-

niscorthy 1916 Battalion Flag, followed by a minute’s silence.

It promises to be a spectacular parade, with more than 800 participants, including hundreds of pikemen, re-enactors and relatives of 1916 volunteers, supported by a battalion of troops from the Irish Defence Forces, together with other uniformed participants and military band.

The Parade will travel through the town centre before converging on Abbey Square, where a formal State Commemoration Ceremony will take place. The ceremony will include the reading of the Proclamation and the laying of a wreath at Rafter Monument by a representative of the Defence Forces. The wreath-laying ceremony will be part of a series of synchronised wreath-laying ceremonies, with wreaths also being laid at significant sites

in Dublin, Meath, Cork, and Galway. The wreaths will simultaneously be laid at precisely 1.15pm – the time that the Rising’s very first shots rang out.

The wreath-laying ceremony will be followed with the raising of the Patriot’s Flag, one of County Wexford’s 1916 legacy projects.

The huge flag, measuring almost 6m x 3m, will be raised by a representative of the Defence Forces on a new 16 metre high illuminated flagpole recently erected in the centre of Abbey Square. This spectacular monument will symbolise Enniscorthy’s long-standing claim as the first town to fly the Tri-colour when, on 7th March 1848, a flag of green, white and orange was carried in a parade from the town to nearby Vinegar Hill.

The first part of the State Ceremony will conclude to

the playing of the National Anthem by the Military Band, with an Air Corps Fly Past during the closing notes of Reveille.

The second part of the celebrations will continue at Abbey Square and will feature the performance of a number of songs specially commissioned by Wexford County Council for 2016, the reading of a commissioned poem, and the much-anticipated 1916-themed battle reenactment.

Wexford County Council has prepared a formal Event Management Plan to cater for the expected large attendance on Easter Monday. Park and Ride facilities will be available on many approach roads and town centre parking will also be signposted. Many of the town centre streets will, of necessity, be closed to traffic, with diversions in place.

Large viewing screens and

public address facilities will strategically located in Market Square and Abbey Square to ensure the public can access and enjoy the various elements of the day’s celebrations.

Proceedings are expected to close at approximately 3.30pm.

Throughout Easter weekend, the Promenade Festival will take place, with dozens of artisan food and craft stalls expected to locate all along the Promenade, adding to the excitement and atmosphere of the weekend.

Enniscorthy’s beloved Athenaeum will also host an “open day” on Easter Saturday, providing a welcome opportunity to the general public to view this newly refurbished iconic building which enjoyed such prominence during the 1916 Rising in Enniscorthy

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‘Thousandaire’ raises €20,000 for Piercestown school

Fundraising is a major task for primary school Parent Councils across the county, with the provision of essential school equipment often dependent on how much money the school can raise from its various activities.

Often the fundraising activities are never ending, from raffles, field days, Christmas Concerts to Carol Singing.

The parents of Piercestown National School went for the big bang fundraiser when they organised a ‘Thousandaire’ event in the Talbot Hotel last week.

The event, which is based on the popular TV programme ‘Who Wants to Be A Millionaire’ requires considerable planning and preparatory work with the selling of tickets and the gathering of businesses to provide sponsorship and take advertising throughout the event itself.

The efforts of the Piercestown parents were

rewarded in spectacular fashion last week. When the total takings and expenses were added up at the end of the night the school was better off to the tune of a whopping €20,000.

The money will now be used to provide additional equipment at the school.

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All set for Gorey's first ever Night Run The plans have been put in place for weeks, competitors have been registering and all is now set for a fantastic Night Run in Gorey this Thursday evening.

Organisers have put out a call to all Gorey town residents to come out and cheer on all runners and walkers taking part in the first ever Gorey Night Run this Thursday 10th Marchfrom 8pm.

"We are expecting a really good atmosphere at the start/ finish area around the Civic Centre but it would be great if people all along the route can come out to cheer and encourage all walkers and runners taking part in the event."

Since there has never been a Gorey town night run before, whoever comes in first on the night will automatically set a brand new world record for running around the streets of Gorey.

On a more serious note however, people are reminded that there will be temporary traffic delays around the town from 8pm until 9 pm o clock on the night. 'We would ask for patience from all drivers at these times and to please fol-

low the stewards instructions for everyone's safety. There will be diversions in place for anyone who is in a hurryturning left at the Bridge bar for anyone going to Courtown, anyone coming from Courtown should go around the roundabout and use the bypass on to the Amber Springs Hotel and those heading towards Enniscorthy can avoid the Main Street by using the side streets up to the town park and on to the monument. However these delays will be very short as the run passes by so people are encouraged to simply enjoy the spectacle and encourage those taking part'.

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Now Irish Water is a complete mess

If the issue of Irish Water and water charges was a mess before the general election it is an even greater shambles now as the parties grapple with the inconclusive result which has been delivered to them by the people.

First of all it is worth saying that more than 60% of people have paid their charges and in this county when you add in the number of people on group schemes and those who have their own wells the total number of people who have not made a contribution to the cost of providing water to their homes is relatively low.

I don’t think I have met anyone who believed that the establishment of Irish Water was well handled but a lot of people accept the fact that something will have to be done to improve and maintain water services.

I know those who object to paying say that they are already contributing through their taxes and water should be funded from central funds.

They have a point but the problem is that is exactly how water was funded over the decades and it has simply failed.

The problem of leaks was not dealt with, lead pipes were undetected and there was a complete lack of

investment in sewage services, including in many parts of this county. If you go back to that way of funding water and sewage service is there any reason to believe it will be any better?. I think not because then you will have sewage competing for money with the likes of hospital trolleys and special needs assistance and the latter two will win all the time.

In their manifesto Fianna Fail promised to abolish Irish Water. It may well be that at the time they decided to make such a promise they did not really believe they had a chance of being in power but they now find themselves having to consider making good what was probably a pretty poorly thought out proposal.

Interestingly the party also said before the election that they would not refund money to people who had paid their water charges despite promising to end them for at least five years. In effect this was to penalise those who had obeyed the law and reward the lawbreakers.

Anyone who paid their water charges and then went out to vote for a Fianna Fail candidate must fit in to the category of the ultimate fool, the type of which enjoy being parted from their money.

It is an outrage to think that people who complied with the law should now be put at a disadvantage while those who refused to pay and in some instances were involved in the intimidation of Irish Water employees as they tried to install metres should be rewarded for their actions.

While the Fianna Fail position is bad, the mixed signals being sent out by Fine Gael are even worse because they have defended the charges while in government over the past few years.

If any type of fudge is agreed on this matter in the course of constructing a new government it will effectively be a cheaters and lawbreakers charter.

It will certainly be the end of any broadening of the tax base and the end to the introduction of charges for anything in the future. It will also provide huge encouragement and oxygen for all sorts of protests groups to start campaigns against other charges.

For example there are many people who believe the television licence should be abolished, suggesting that it is an unfair charge, particularly on poorer families. The charge goes primarily to fund RTE. During the course of the recent general election

campaign there were repeated claims from Sinn Fein that the national broadcaster had treated the party unfairly.

There are regular complaints too from smaller parties that they do not get a fair hearing on RTE. Let’s suppose a few of these groups go t together and launched a campaign against the TV licence as an unfair charge and it began to gather momentum. If large groups of people stopped paying the licence there could soon be a domino effect because with the changing political landscape in the country those paying the licence could feel that a change of government might abolish the licence and leave them looking stupid for a second time. The same could apply to any other charge not administered by the revenue commissioners.

The two main parties are on dangerous ground here and they are in danger of pushing more and more people to vote for representatives from the extremes of the political system.

It seems to me that it would certainly be better for Fine Gael in particular to go to the opposition benches rather than having any truck with this type of dangerous nonsense.

Think you have been badly treated by your partner--------read this Spare a thought for twenty four year old Scottish girl Heather McGillion . She met her partner, Adonis Rodriguez (21) in the Dominican Republic when both worked as entertainers at the same hotel A year into the relationship Heather became pregnant and when complications set in she decided to return to Scotland but had to leave her partner behind because of visa complications.

Sad for Adonis you might think not to be around for the birth of his baby son. Well don’t shed too many tears for him because at the very moment Heather was in

labour it appears Adonis had his mind on other things.

He was actually marrying a German tourist in a beautiful beach ceremony. Little wonder that when a friend posted the facebook pictures of the wedding to Heather she couldn’t believe her eyes. But she did recognise the lady in the wedding dress as someone her partner had been ‘friends’ with on facebook.

And when she confronted Adonis on the telephone her worst fears were confirmed.

This was no fancy dress, it was the real thing.

Amazingly Heather has gone back to the Dominican Republic to reside and to

enable her ex-partner to see his son. But I really loved his quote. He said ‘I want to say so sorry to Heather about this

because Heather has my baby and I want to see Diego (the baby). Sounds genuinely sorry doesn’t he!

Howlin in a field all of his own You have to hand it to Brendan Howlin. His general election vote, winning more than two and a half times the level of support achieved by his party nationally, was spectacular.

The strange thing was that people of all other parties who canvassed in Wexford town reported back that there was hostility on the doorsteps to the Minister.

Howlin’s election agent George Lawlor always believed that business and middle class support would swing the way of his man in sufficient numbers to see him home. However, even George must have been surprised that Brendan put in his strongest ever performance across all social classes in Wexford town and district.

In the end his level of delivery counted for a lot, as did his stature as a national politician and the lack of a credible alternative in

Wexford town but I loved the story told by John Browne as the count neared an end on the Monday afternoon.

A man who frequented a betting office in Wexford town had been complaining bitterly about Minister Howlin and the Labour Party for the past five years. Often this criticism would be vicious and personal.

On the Saturday afternoon of the count this man was still criticising Howlin and his party. But who did he vote for the previous day---------‘Howlin, sure who else would I vote for’. This nugget of information, illustrates in a way which no amount of market research could, why he polled so strongly in the town.

Meanwhile, the guy in the bookies having voted for him, will feel entitled to continue his criticism, although I suspect a new target will emerge quite soon after the next government is formed.

In the run up to the general election Brendan Howlin spent his days crossing the county to open roads, schools, sports facilitiies and much more. In the end it all paid handsome dividends. Here he was pictured at the opening of the St. Mary's Maudlintown new facilities in Wexford town

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In the boom years the eye was really taken off the ball in relation to the port which has been allowed to fall into a state of disrepair and in some cases near dereliction.

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Facilities in the port itself are dreadful and in the wider area once vibrant hotels are now closed or have become derelict sites, with a single exception.

Rosslare was a great driver of the Wexford economy and it must be returned to space again.

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Sinn Fein councillor’s illness saved Kehoe’s Dail seat The dust has well and truly settled on the general election at this stage even if the shape of the next government is still as clear as mud. The outcome in Wexford was a nail bitter in the end with Government Chief Whip, Paul Kehoe, surviving to serve another term in the Dail by just a handful of votes.

Kehoe was a mighty relieved man when the result was finally declared after a recount and he had every reason to be relieved.

The fact is that he would almost certainly have been added to the Fine Gael tally of casualties in the election but for the serious illness which hit Sin Fein Wexford councillor, Anthony Kelly, at the beginning of January.

Anthony was the party’s biggest vote getter in the last local election and managed to bring his running mate, Mick Roche, into the Council.

On the doorsteps in Wexford town canvassing alongside Johnny Mythen he would likely have been worth hundreds of additional votes to the Sinn Fein campaign, but he would certainly have been good for more than the margin which separated the two candidates in

the end.

Kehoe’s survival meant it was a remarkable day for the outgoing government in the county because it was one of the few constituencies which returned a majority of government TDs. That success was of course lead

by Brendan Howlin who polled more than twice Labour’s national vote to top the poll.

The Minister had delivered a lot of infrastructural projects to Wexford over the past five years and despite all parties suggesting that there were negative vibes towards him on the doorsteps he swept up huge support in Wexford town and district.

With Liam Twomey out of the field he hovered up a huge chunk of the traditional Fine Gael vote in the Wexford area and also seems to have won backing from traditional FG voters in other parts of the county.

While many in the Fine Gael organisation, including some of those close to the top of it locally, had suggested that Michael D’Arcy would poll well behind Paul Kehoe the D’Arcys demonstrated once again that when their backs are

The scene at the election count and (inset) James Browne congratulates Brendan Howlin on his poll topping performance to the wall they have the machine to get out the vote.

The strength of the outgoing Senator across the county put paid to Malcolm Byrne’s hopes of taking a Dail seat for Fianna Fail in North Wexford for the first time since 1982.

The Byrne camp had been very confident of seeing off the D’Arcy challenge and while Byrne did outpoint Fine Gael in the Gorey urban area it was Senator D’Arcy who prevailed across the county.

The irony of the poll in Wexford was that Fine Gael managed to get two seats to Fianna

Fail’s one despite FF polling a couple of thousand votes more on the first count. James Browne’s very strong performance meant that there was a lack of balance in the vote and ultimately the party was not in the hunt for a second seat.

In reality the party’s failure to even come close to a second

Mary Byrne and Michel D’Arcy pictured at the count before Michael’s election

Brendan Howlin and his team inclduing election agent George Lawlor celebrate their success

Mick Wallace and Jamie Wallace check a tally sheet

Betty Roche, Johney Mythen and Councillor Mick Roche at the count centre

seat can be traced back to the day headquarters decided to add a third candidate to the line up in the county. Aoife Byrne was no token candidate and that meant there were three fighting for at best two seats.

In these circumstances vote management was a non-starter with every man and woman fighting for themselves. Aoife Byrne was a potentially formidable candidate with a good party pedigree being the daughter of former TD, Huge Byrne.

In an open battle James Browne was always going to emerge as the strongest contender, particularly given the strong campaign put in on his behalf by his father John, a TD in the constituency for thirty four years.

While nationally it was a day for Independents Wexford somewhat bucked the national trend. Mick Wallace’s vote was well down on five years ago although he still polled impressively. Certainly for a TD who does not live in the constituency, does not carry out constituency work and concentrates almost entirely on national and international affairs, his vote was remarkably resilient.

The Mayor of Wexford Ger Carthy was strongest of the remaining independents but he was well off the pace and the smaller party representatives bought up the rear.

With such an uncertain outcome nationally the candidates will be putting the posters away carefully rather than dumping them. Following this tough experience Paul Kehoe will certainly not be looking forward to an early rematch.

Sinn Fein has a habit of ensuring that where they are involved in a near miss they make no mistake next time around. On this basis Wexford will be their number one national target in the next general election whenever it happens.

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Co. Council Diary Tea and biscuits early for councillors as election takes its toll

The election is over and the politicians have put away their arms. Hostilities are at and end, or maybe they are just talked out. Whatever the reason members of the Co. Council were sipping tea and eating biscuits, business complete. by 4pm on Monday, at least two and a half hours ahead of their normal finishing time.

There is, of course, one less member of the Council now, one empty chair, following the election of James Browne to the big chamber in Dublin.

But blame for dragging on previous meetings to past 5.30pm when the March business was concluded in just over an hour couldn’t all be put down to the absence of the Fianna Fail man.

No .the stresses and strains of an election campaign have taken their toll, not least on the four members of the Council who unsuccessfully contested the poll. Chairman Dempsey had soothing words for councillors Byrne, Carthy, Wadding and Mythen at the start of the proceedings.

It took courage to put your name on the ballot paper and he saluted each of them for the courage they had shown. They were probably privately saying ‘it's a pity the voters

hadn’t been similarly impressed by our courage and we wouldn’t be sitting here now’ When Deirdre Wadding wanted the Department of Social Protection to pay grants for deposits on rental properties directly to landlords instead of tenants the Chairman thought the campaign had really taken a heavy toll on the People Before Profit councillor. ‘You’re looking after landlords now’, he observed.

Fine Gael’s Paddy Kavanagh has not, of course, been in the centre of the campaign and he was exercised about a Horse Fair which had taken over parts of the N11 last weekend.

When Deirdre Wadding attempted to silence the Enniscorthy man by questioning the relevance it had to the agenda she picked the wrong man.

‘I’ll give you relevance’ said Paddy without missing a beat.

Meanwhile as the roads continue to get worse, particularly in country areas, and more and more people join the housing waiting list with little prospect of any light at the end of the tunnel, there was a certain nervousness evident early in the meeting over a planned expedition by officials and some councillors to the United States for St. Patrick’s week.

Chairman Dempsey moved to banish any discussion until the end of the meeting when attempts were made to raise it at the beginning of the agenda.

Before the end he called on the Chief Executive Tom Enright to outline what was in store for the travelling party.

By the time he had finished outlining the exhaustive list of engagements which would be undertaken in Savannah the only thing on councillors minds was whether or not they should include advanced paramedic Ger Carthy as part of the group because the scale of this ambitious itinerary could well leave some exhausted councillors in need of medical attention.

In the end, far from anyone questioning the cost of the trip or anything else about it, most members just seemed to be happy that they would be staying at home, particularly those who had just come through the election campaign.

Next month the travelling party will, however, have to provide everyone with a detailed report on the trip. If Tom Enright’s preview is anything to go by we can expect to get a minute by minute account of the visit so they all better behave!.

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The turnout was excellent, with 44 children between the ages of 8 and 16 signing up..

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of the new Academy, Art McCarrick said, “The energy behind this Youth Academy is phenomenal.

Garry, John and Jonathan have put in a huge amount of work to get it to this stage. We are all very proud to be part of this groundbreaking Academy and are very excited to see the young people progress and develop through our workshops over the coming months. They are the future of motorsport, and we will do what we can to help them pursue their dreams.”

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