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Amy Wall: our new World Champion WATCH out Katie Taylor, Wicklow has a new sporting hero ... An 18-year-old student from Bray has been crowned world champion after winning a major kickboxing tournament in Italy. Amy Wall competed at the Wako World Kickboxing Championships in Venice where she took on girls in the junior full contact 60kg section from Poland, Kazakhstan, before beating a rival from Turkey in the semis and Russia’s Anna 6H]RQRYD LQ WKH ¿QDO $P\ KDV MXVW ¿QLVKHG KHU /HDYLQJ &HUWL¿FDWH LQ &RODLVWH Raithin and is currently studying primary school teaching in in Marino College Clontarf. Amy, who lives at home with her proud parents Lindsay and Neil, started karate aged four with Massan Ghorbani in Masters Temple where she earned her black belt. Then at the age of 10 she took up kickboxing and is currently WUDLQLQJ ZLWK 1LFR 'X྾\ LQ KKC Cabra and training with

Alan Sherry in CSP Bray, which LV ORFDWHG RQ $UGHH 6WUHHW Rŕľľ the Dargle Road. “I am absolutely thrilled with my win and would like to thank all my trainers over the years that have helped me to get to this level,â€? Amy told the Wicklow Voice. “A big thank you must also go to my parents who are a huge part of my success with their constant support. “Also, I am very appreciative of the hard work that the big team behind me - they are the ones who prepared me for the Wako World Championships. “Alan Sherry for my strength and conditioning and Aidan Mackey for my nutrition in CSP also, Joe Hagan the national Irish full contact coach and my WUDLQHU 1LFR 'Xŕľľ\ ZKR ZRUNV with me all year round keeping me prepared both mentally and SK\VLFDOO\ IRU P\ ÂżJKWV DQG DOO my team mates who push me at every training session. Continued on page 8

A jubilant Amy Wall after she was crowned World Champion at the Wako World Kickboxing Championships in Venice. ÂťLots more pictures from around the county inside

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news in brief Youth Theatre at The Whale YOUTH Theatre @ The Whale was delighted to launch its new youth drama group with an afternoon of Open Drama Workshops on September 23 Greystones Studios (above The Whale Theatre). Teenagers, aged between 14 and 18 years, were invited to stop by, and either participated or watched the workshops which were facilitated by Ciarån Coogan, Aideen Walton and guest facilitator, Tara 1L[RQ 2œ1HLOO If you are between 14 and 18 years of age and wish to register your interest in taking part in future workshops, or would like more information about this exciting new drama group based in Greystones, please email Joanne O’Shea to youththeatre. greystones@gmail.com or just drop by on a Sunday afternoon and check us out!

Catch A Star Branar TÊatar do Phåistí, one of Ireland’s leading theatre companies for young audiences, are delighted to be presenting their charming production How To Catch A Star at Bray’s 0HUPDLG $UWV &HQWUH 3(5)250$1&( '(7$,/6 Dates: October 9 and 10. 9HQXH 0HUPDLG $UWV &HQWUH Price: ₏8 Contact details: (01) 272 4030 ; www.mermaidartscentre.ie

Cheers! Gastrobar celebrates first birthday Sadbh Glover, Stephanie Quinn and Katie Temple of Butler and Barry By Jake Maxwell GASTROBAR Butler and %DUU\ ZLOO FHOHEUDWH LWV ÂżUVW birthday in business by hosting a customer party on October 5. The new venue, which recently picked up an award at the Irish Restaurant Awards 2018, will treat its loyal customers to a complimentary prosecco reception and tasting menu. This will be followed by popular singing duo, Robbie and Hannah, from 10.00pm, with DJ Carl D ‘til late.

Additional drink tokens, for use on the night, will be issued every Friday and Saturday night, in the run to the party. The nightspot is also launching its new mobile app at the customer party which will have all of the latest news, entertainment, PHQX GHWDLO DQG RŕľľHUV ZLOO be instantly accessible on the handy app, as well as priority promotions for those using the Butler & Barry download. The mobile app can be downloaded and saved at app.butlerandbarry.

com and is also available on Google Play. A competition to win a party for 40 friends is open to everyone saving the Butler & Barry app during October. Including a private party room, food platters for forty SHRSOH DQG ¿YH ERWWOHV RI prosecco, the amazing prize package is worth over ₏500. Butler and Barry employs more than 40 full-time and SDUW WLPH VWD྾ DQG KDV been included on Lucinda O’Sullivan’s prestigious listing of the Top 20 Seaside Venues in which to eat.

Students hailed for ocean help 678'(176 from Presentation College Bray have been lauded for their support of one of the boldest deep-ocean research projects ever to be undertaken in Europe. The SEA-SEIS project was launched recently from Cobh, County Cork and the team will explore the farthest depths of the Atlantic Ocean, using 18 state-of-the-art ocean bottom seismometers. Secondary schools from across the country were invited to put forward names for the each of the seismometers, which had, up until then, just been numbered 1-18. The winning entry hailing from Wicklow was ‘Wilson’, after Tuzo Wilson, a geophysicist who made important contributions to the theory of plate tectonic. “I would like to sincerely thank the students at Presentation College Bray for helping our UHVHDUFKHUV LQ WKLV VFLHQWLÂżF mission to explore the farthest GHSWKV RI WKH $WODQWLF 2FHDQ ´ Professor Chris Bean, Senior Professor of Geophysics and Director of the DIAS School of Cosmic Physics, said at the launch.

Easing up: property price rises slow to just 0.3% THE price of the average threebed semi in Wicklow rose by 0.3% to â‚Ź291,000 between June and September, according to a national survey carried out by Real Estate Alliance. Wicklow prices rose by 10.3% in the last 12 months, the survey found. Prices in Bray remain stable at an average of â‚Ź355,000, an increase of 4.4% over the past year. The average price in Wicklow Town is â‚Ź320,000, up 1.6% in the quarter and 6.7% over the past 12 months. “The market has levelled Rŕľľ ´ VDLG 0DWW )RUNLQ RI 5($ )RUNLQ 1RUWK (DVW :LFNORZ where the price of the average three-bed semi remained stable at â‚Ź320,000 between June and September. “Properties aren’t moving as fast as this time last year, a number are overpriced and sitting on the market. “Expectation have to be revised to consider what the market will allow due to new build properties. “Also, the Central Bank is getWLQJ VWULFWHU ZLWK LWV UXOHV ´ Âł7KH Ă€DJJHG VWDELOLVDWLRQ RI WKH PDUNHW KDV PDWHULDOLVHG ´ VDLG 6LPRQ 0XUSK\ RI 5($ 0XUSK\ 1RUWK :HVW :LFNORZ Blessington, where the price of the average three-bed semi remained stable at â‚Ź290,000 in the last quarter. “There is solid demand for correctly priced property, but over-priced property is slow to move. “Buyers are reluctant to move to a rural area for much cheap-

er property. “A four-bed semi in Baltinglass for â‚Ź210,000 would generally not be preferred to a â‚Ź290,000 three-bed LQ %OHVVLQJWRQ ´ KH VDLG The REA Average House Price Survey concentrates on the actual sale price of Ireland’s typical stock home, the threebed semi, giving an up-to-date picture of the second-hand property market in towns and cities countrywide to the close of last week. The average semi-detached house nationally now costs â‚Ź234,824, the Q3 REA Average House Price Survey has found – a rise of 1% on the Q2 2018 ÂżJXUH RI Âź Overall, the average house price across the country rose by 5.8% over the past 12 months – a decrease on the 8% recorded to June and indicating that the market is continuing to steady after an 11.3% overall rise in 2017. The price of a three-bed semidetached house in Dublin has increased by just 2.7% in the last 12 months as the Central Bank’s borrowing rules increasLQJO\ GHÂżQH DŕľľRUGDELOLW\ LQ WKH housing market. The rate of increase in secondhand three-bed semi-detached home prices in Dublin city’s postcode zones was just 0.1% over the last three months, compared to 4.1% for the same quarter last year. After rising by 12.5% in 2017, the average price of a secondhand semi-detached house in the capital has increased by just â‚Ź5,300 so far this year.

Kids: be nice to nature THE Tree Council of Ireland, supported by Tetra Pak, is calling on primary school children across Wicklow to get involved in Tetra Pak Tree Day on October 4. The theme for this year’s campaign is “Be nature nice! or %t GyLJKL~LO GRQ G~OUD ´ Tetra Pak Tree Day gives

children, teachers and parents the opportunity to put down the school books, get outdoors and connect directly with nature. As part of Tetra Pak Tree Day, up to 1,000 native tree saplings will be made available through the Tree Day website for primary school children to plant on their school grounds.

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By Jake Maxwell WHAT a man, what a legend! Ger Devin (52) swam the English Channel in 16 hours and 41 mins in aid of the Gavin Glynn Foundation. “We are all so proud of Ger and his support team for completing the swim and raising funds and awareness of The Gavin Glynn Foundation,â€? John Glynn director of The Gavin Glynn Foundation told the Wicklow Voice. 7KH IDWKHU RI WKUHH VHW Rŕľľ from Dover in England at

midnight on September 26 in his bid to raise â‚Ź10k to aid the charity which helps children VXŕľľHULQJ IURP FDQFHU Ger, who is from Bray but now lives in Greystones with his wife Janet and three children, Katie, Karl and Vanessa, swam 70km (43.4 miles). Anyone wishing to donate can still do so at The Channel Swim Fundraiser for The Gavin Glynn Foundation or www.idonate.ie/ tggfswimteam. 'XULQJ KLV HŕľľRUWV KH ZDV supported by his wife Jan

and his swimming partner and fellow long distance sea swimmer Ger Kennedy. The swim from Dover to Callis is 33km distance in a straight line but with tides and weather the distance is always greater. Ger faced some serious bad weather half way through and it was very touch and go whether they would have to stop. “I have been following the work John Glynn and The Gavin Glynn Foundation have been doing and I just wanted to help,� Ger told the Wicklow Voice.

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news in brief Kilmacacanogue History Society

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ON October 2 at 8pm in the Glenview Hotel Kilmacacanogue History Society present The Famine and Workhouses in Wicklow. The Talk by Brian Donnelly Senior Archivest and Eva O Cathaoir Scholar will be illustrated by some rare documents from the Famine Era that are in the National Archives. This should be of interest to some of your readers considering we are commemorating the 175th Anniversary of the start of the Great Famine this year which changed the course of Irish history.

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“Thanks to my sponsors Patrick White from Smackwear. ie, Kevin Shanahan Progum, Keith Gordon, Brian Cleary, Two Mile Inn and everyone who sponsored me for this trip.� That was Amy’s last junior world championships and she now intends to conquer the senior sections, she said. Here are some of the other titles Amy has won: Irish Open Winner ISKA World Title WKU World Title WKU World Title Multiple National Kickboxing Champion ISKA WKA WKF IKF Irish Titles Leinster Boxing Champion 3x All-Ireland Boxing Champion

Amy in action, below left, the moment she won and, right, with her trophy and medal

7KH ÂżUVW OXQFK DIWHU WKH summer break was held on September 26, in Kilian House Family Centre, next to Holy Rosary Greystones, and will be held on the last Wednesday from 12.15 to 2pm in future. Everyone is welcome to come along and enjoy good home made food and a friendly chat. We suggest a donation of â‚Ź5 for local charities.

The country was wellrepresented at this year’s competition and ,ULVK ¿JKWHUV SLFNHG XS numerous accolades: Kickboxing Ireland took away 12 Gold, 11 Silver and %URQ]H PHGDOV WR ¿QLVK fourth in the overall world medal table. There was 65 countries at the championships.

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It’s generation Brexit: 3473 from the UK live here THERE’S 3473 people from the UK living in the county, according to a new Census report released recently. And there come be more of them on the way as the looming Brexit deadline looms with an increasing number of Britons applying for Irish passports, Department of Justice statistics show. 7KH ¿JXUHV VKRZ WKDW WKH number of UK nationals swapping British for Irish citizenship LQFUHDVHG ¿YH IROG DIWHU WKH Brexit referendum, rising from 98 in 2016 to 529 in 2017. 7KH ¿JXUH ZDV DOPRVW GRXEOH WKH SUHYLRXV \HDUœV ¿Jure of 54. Meanwhile, according to the Census report, the other nationalities that make up the top 17 nationalities in Wicklow: Polish (2905), Lithuanian (806), Romanian (681), German (376), Latvian (339), Chinese (319), American (296), Spanish (295),

Hungarian (279), Italian (278), French (237), Filipino (181), Indian (178), Dutch (156), Slovak (156) and Brazilian (137). Nationwide, in April 2016, there were 535,475 non-Irish nationals living in the country, a decrease of 1.6% on the 2011 FHQVXV ÂżJXUH RI SHRSOH Ten nationalities accounted IRU RI WKH WRWDO ÂżJXUH Polish nationals (122,515 people) made up the largest group while German nationals (11,531 people) were the smallest of the WHQ JURXSV SURÂżOHG Commenting on the report, Cormac Halpin, Senior Statistician said “One of the PDQ\ EHQHÂżWV RI FHQVXV GDWD LV the information it gives us on the individual groups that make up Ireland’s population. “This report details the top ten largest non-Irish national populations living in Ireland and looks at the characteristics

of each covering topics such as ZKHUH WKH\ OLYH DJH SUR¿OH HGucation, language ability, housing, general health, work and occupations�. The number of UK, Polish, Lithuanian and Latvian nationals fell between 2011 and 2016. The largest increases were in the Spanish, Romanian and Brazilian populations. The Spanish population increased by 78% from 6,794 to 12,112 people between 2011 and 2016. This was the biggest percentage increase of the nationalities SUR¿OHG 5RPDQLDQ QDWLRQDOV LQcreased by 69% from 17,304 to 29,186 people during the same period and represented the largest increase in population size. The four nationalities with the highest concentration of their populations living in Dublin city and suburbs were Brazilians at 64%, Romanians and Italians each at 58% and Spanish nationals at 52%.

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County cleans up at By Jake Maxwell THE Garden County is looking well thanks to the hard work and dedication of the local Tidy Towns groups. 7KH LPPHQVH H൵RUWV RI WKHVH volunteers saw County Wicklow shine at this year’s SuperValu Tidy Towns competition. Each of the four main town improved on their score in 2017. “I would like to congratulate Bray Tidy towns on their recent success in Nationals Tidy Towns competition,” Cllr Brendan Thornhill told the Wicklow Voice. “I will ensure that Bray Municipal District Council will fund Bray TT to its maximum. This success augers well for the future of Bray.” Fine Gael TD and Minister of State, Andrew Doyle congratulated the towns and communities in Wicklow who took part in this year’s Tidy Towns competition. “For the last 60 years the Tidy Towns competition has brought enormous improvements to our local towns, villages and rural areas here in Wicklow,” said Mr Doyle. “Here in Wicklow the enhancements brought about by our local tidy towns committees give the whole community a lift. “This competition really shows us the importance of participation. “Our local Tidy Towns volunteers are a credit to our community. I encourage anyone who feels strongly about our community and our environment to get involved with Tidy Towns.” This year’s competition saw a record number of towns and villaged taking part with a total of 870 getting involved.

WICKLOW RESULTS: Category A Grange Con 311 Kiltegan 301 Knockananna 295 Donard 285 Hollywood village 277 Rathdangan 250 Ballycoog 248 Category B Stratford-On-Slaney 316 Newcastle 302 Avoca 300 Roundwood 295

Laragh & Glendalough 284 Coolboy 280 Glenealy 276 Dunlavin 264 Shillelagh 229 Lacken 220

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Category C Aughrim 327 Ashford 297 Delgany 287 Tinahely 284 Rathdrum 263

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Category G Greystones 302 Category H Bray 307

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Brian Quigley oy Keane has certainly been in the news a lot in the last few weeks. He’s probably had a higher PHGLD SUR¿OH than Leo Varadker. He’s certainly taken up more column inches and radio time than his manager Martin O’Neill, or the Irish team’s dismal loss to Wales in the Nations Cup and respectable draw away to Poland in a friendly. Roy is someone who polarises opinion. You either like him or you don’t. You either agree with him or

John Belger (UK organiser), Josie Mahon (Inland Fisheries Ireland), David Frazer, Jonathan Davis and John Davis from Boat 2 JD’s from Bray Head Social and Fishing Club at Rosslare Small Boats Festival. The heaviest fish, a Bull Huss of 5.48 kg, was caught by Johnathan you don’t. He doesn’t pull his punches; there’s no in-between. Perhaps that’s why he doesn’t come across well doing his ITV punditry, in my mind. He’s someone with something to say, and that doesn’t sit well with a station who would prefer if you didn’t say anything, RU MXVW VDLG EODQG LQR൵HQVLYH

things. I’m with Keane in the whole Harry Arter / Jonathan Walters spat. +H VKRXOGQ¶W KDYH VDLG ZKDW KH¶V UHSRUWHG WR KDYH VDLG RU acted the way he’s reported to KDYH DFWHG EXW ZH VKRXOGQ¶W EH hearing about it. 6WX൵ OLNH WKDW VKRXOGQ¶W EH OHDYLQJ WKH FDPS

Roy didn’t hit anyone or say anything racist, sexist or homophobic – all things that would KDYH FURVVHG D OLQH LQ P\ ERRN He was cruel in what he said to the guys but they should KDYH EHHQ DEOH WR GHDO ZLWK LW It didn’t need to be washed in public. I hope Keane doesn’t ORVH KLV MRE RYHU WKLV +H¶V WKH

JUHDWHVW SOD\HU ZH KDYH HYHU had, and we need his input into UHYLYLQJ RXU QDWLRQDO WHDP 2EYLRXVO\ KH KDV DQJHU PDQagement issues and needs to address these, but he should keep his job. Martin O’Neill was right to defend him. I hate the phenomenon of ‘player power’.

,W JRW 5DQLHUL PRYHG RQ IURP Leicester after winning the Premiership. ,W JRW 3HWHU %HDUGVOH\ LQYHVtigated for supposedly bullying just because he was tough with some academy players he was coaching at Newcastle. Football is meant to be a sport for tough characters, not prima donnas. The poor state of the Ireland team isn’t all down to Keane and O’Neill. They can only work with what WKH\¶YH JRW :H KDYH D GHFHQW VTXDG RI players at the moment but they DUH QRW DV JRRG DV SUHYLRXV groups. We are building for the future. Less and less Irish players are making the grade at Premiership and Championship teams, GXH WR WKH PRQH\ WKH FOXEV KDYH to buy in foreign players. This is a fact that we can’t ignore. If we had a stronger league here we could pick from that more. The fact that our league is weak is John Delaney’s fault, not Roy Keane’s or Martin O’Neill’s.

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wicklow people in pictures

Victor Drummy (Vice Principal), Tom Geraghty (Headmaster) and Adrian Dungan (Deputy Principal) with students at the St Gerards Debs

Former Commodore Ken McAvoy and wife Ann at the Bray Sailing Club 60th Anniversary party

Jade McCann and Martha O’Beirne at the Wine and Cheese Night for Jade who is suffering from cancer at Charlesland Community Centre

Tom Geraghty (Headmaster), Adrian Dungan (Deputy Principal) Ms Sheila Maguire (Director of Studies), Victor Drummy (Deputy Principal) with students at the St Gerards Debs

Republic of Ireland manager Martin O’Neill who visited St Kieran’s primary school recently

Michelle O’Connor, Matthew Jebb Director of the National Botanic Gardens, Lorna Mallick, Andrew Doyle TD, Dermot Fanning and Jackie Stone at the Ashford Honey Festival

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ORIGINAL GARDEN OF IRELAND RUN Bray Vintage Car Club 0861650353 The last weekend in September, the 29th & 30th will see Bray Vintage Car Club’s 10th annual weekend event with a Saturday car run and a Sunday show. Starting on Saturday in Ireland’s oldest hotel, the Woodenbridge Hotel our fabulous vintage and classic cars will take to the road taking in some of Wicklow’s finest scenery on our leisurely run.

Sunday will see a static display of all eras around Bray’s iconic bandstand. Everyone is welcome to attend with all participating vintage cars being asked to be on site before 1pm and remain until 4pm.

GIG of the week Avocet at Bull Island (Photo Justin Ivory) FOR BIRDERS, Spring and Autumn are their favourite times of the year, as with huge movements of birds on migration, anything could turn up anywhere. Of the two, autumn is the season that holds the most anticipation and excitement as, after completion of the breeding season the numbers of birds on the move are substantially larger than during the spring migration. By the time this goes to print, Storm Ali will have been and gone, and in all likelihood will have brought some unusual feathered visitors with it – so keep an eye out on all headlands and coastal locations for something out of the ordinary. One of the more distinctive birds that sometimes visit our shores is the Avocet (Recurvirostra avosetta) and one turned up on Bull Island, Co. Dublin on September 16th and was still there as I write this. With its striking black and white plumage, long legs and slender body, uniquely long, thin, strongly up-curved bill, the Avocet is a handsome and graceful wader. It is well known as the emblem of the RSPB (Royal Society for the Protection of Birds). While in recent years one or two individuals have been turning up in Ireland, most sightings have been in Wexford, with a group of 5 turning up there for a few days in April 2017. It is 25 years since an Avocet was last sighted at Bull Island. With breeding populations and wintering populations increasing in the UK it is hoped that the Avocet will start to breed in Ireland. There have historically been sporadic records of Avocets breeding in Wexford but no such records since the first half of the 20th Century. The genus name Recurvirostra comes from the Latin recurvus which means “curved backwards�, and rostrum which means “bill�. When feeding it sweeps this distinctive bill from side to side through shallow water to seize shrimps, insect larvae, small crustaceans and worms.

success of Planxty in the 70s and then from Patrick Street to Andy Irvine & Dónal Lunny’s Mozaik, Andy has been a world music pioneer and an icon for traditional music and musicians.

BOOK of the week

CHALLENGE of the week

HELL & BACK, Ireland’s Toughest Mental & Physical Endurance Challenge, is the country’s largest and most popular obstacle course adventure run and features on RTE1’s hugely popular Ireland’s Fittest Family TV show. This hellish event takes place a number of times each year in the stunning Killruddery Estate. Killruddery is a spectacular working farm,

ambivalent relationship with the legal profession are all examined with wry quirky humour. These stories will remain with the reader long after the book is put down.

Wicklow has a large population of hybrid Sika deer. Every autumn the stags vie for females during the rut. We shall have telescopes set up by the bridge on the White walking trail, so that anyone passing can stop and watch the action. Please be aware that there is a hike of 1½hrs to reach the telescopes. Please dress for the

which is converted into an adventure playground, where to survive, you must conquer all the elements thrown at you. You can register now on www. hellandback.ie

hills—wear good hiking boots and bring rain gear. Binoculars are also useful. NO DOGS, please. This event is free of charge but parking has a ₏4 charge.

FESTIVAL of the week

but also the operational work involved in running a hospital the size of St James’s. This week we look at the case of Mary Mooney from Co Wicklow, a woman with a rare form of blood cancer.

SHOW of the week

The Festival will be based in the Brockagh Resource Centre with many of the walks taking us through Wicklow Mountains National Park. The Centre is situated in the heart of the Wicklow Mountains, on the road between the village of Laragh and Glendalough. All walks are led by experienced walking leaders who will enhance

WILDE LIVE: THE IMPORTANCE OF BEING EARNEST Whale Theatre Tuesday October 9

In a stunning show JMA pay homage to Neil Young and Bob Dylan’s greatest music featuring performances of many classics and including some slightly lesser known album tracks. JMA take the songs of the masters and add their own unique edge to the mix. Their sound is based around excellent vocals with tight

One of the funniest plays in English, Oscar Wilde’s The Importance of Being Earnest, will be broadcast live to cinemas from the Vaudeville Theatre in London’s West End. Wilde’s muchloved masterpiece throws love, logic and language into the air to make one of theatre’s most dazzling firework displays. Jack,

harmonies coupled with superb guitar work and driving rhythms. Doors open 8pm Tickets Advance â‚Ź10 / Pay on door â‚Ź12.

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PLAY of the week

INTERPRETATIONS OF NEIL YOUNG & BOB DYLAN CLASSICS Hotspot Music Club September 28

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RUT WATCH Wicklow Mountains National Park October 14 11am-4pm

TV SHOW of the week

Last year, a record 400,000 patients were treated at St. James’s and this number is rising. In winter, 2018, during the busiest months of the year, the hospital opened it’s doors to show us what really happens inside; 2 camera crews were situated in the hospital from January to April, and had the incredible opportunity to film not just the work carried out by the medical staff in the hospital,

audiences in “The Conjuring 2�, as the abbey becomes a horrific battleground between the living and the damned.

EVENT of the week

A PRESENT OF AN ORANGE by Seymour Cresswell A collection of delightfully humorous, whimsical short stories, written by County Wicklow resident Seymour Cresswell, is now available from major book shops. Titled A Present of an Orange, the stories are drawn from events in the author’s own life, giving the reader an insight into his world. Drama, sailing, parents, parenthood and the author’s

When a young nun at a cloistered abbey in Romania takes her own life, a priest with a haunted past and a novitiate on the threshold of her final vows are sent by the Vatican to investigate. Together they uncover the order’s unholy secret. Risking not only their lives but their faith and their very souls, they confront a malevolent force in the form of the same demonic nun that first terrorised

HELL & BACK Kilruddery, Wicklow September 29

ANDY IRVINE Friday October 19 Hot Spot Music Club, www.thehotspot.ie Andy Irvine is one of the great Irish singers, his voice one of a handful of truly great ones that gets to the very soul of Ireland. He has been hailed as “a tradition in himself.� Musician, singer and songwriter, Andy has maintained his highly individual performing skills throughout his 45-year career. From Sweeney’s Men in the mid 60s, to the enormous

FILM of the week

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WICKLOW COUNTY COUNCIL COMHAIRLE CHONTAE CHILL MHANTÁIN

VALUE YOUR VOTE!!!!!! The Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government has signed the Order to hold the Presidential Election and Referendum on Friday 26th October 2018. Electors are strongly advised to check that they are registered to vote on www.checktheregister.ie If you are not on the Register electors can apply to be included in the Supplement to the Register of Electors which will be published for the Election as follows: RFA2 Form – Application for Inclusion in the Supplement to the Register of Electors (for electors not already registered or those who will have reached the age of 18 years before the date of any referendum/election). RFA3 Form – Application for Inclusion in the Supplement to the Register of Electors (Change of Address) (for electors who have changed address since the publication of the Live Register on the 1st February between local electoral areas in Wicklow or to another county). The Closing date for Receipt of Applications for the Supplement Register is Tuesday 9th October 2018. ELECTORS WHO REQUIRE A POSTAL/SPECIAL VOTE – PLEASE NOTE THAT THE CLOSING DATE FOR RECEIPT OF APPLICATIONS IS MONDAY 1ST OCTOBER 2018. (PLEASE NOTE THAT POSTAL VOTES ARE NOT PROVIDED TO ELECTORS WHO ARE ON HOLIDAYS AT THE TIME OF THE ELECTION AND REFERENDUM) If you have any queries please email franchise@wicklowcoco.ie

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