A man in his 20s is in critical condition after a serious collision involving a car and a motorcycle happened at around 11.45pm last night (Monday) on the R730 at Killurin near Glynn.
The motorcyclist was taken to Wexford General Hospital for treatment and has since been transferred to Beaumont Hospital, where he remains in a critical condition.
No other injuries were reported.
Gardaí are appealing for anyone with dashcam or information to contact them at Wexford Garda Station (053 9165200), the Garda Confidential number 1800 666 111 or any garda station.
Castlebridge has received €300,000 under the 2025 Towns and Village Renewal Scheme to transform the gardens of historic Castlebridge House, birthplace of the Guinness Book of Records.
The news was welcomed on behalf of the community and Wexford County Council by Cllr Robbie Staples, Chair of the Castlebridge Town Centre First team. “It will restore the area for inspiring outdoor events and performance space and pocket park, swing benches and pagodas and biodiversity area, and hopefully, some features relating back to the Guinness Book of Records set in the grounds of this landmark building,” concluded Cllr Staples
Bill Walsh, Cllr Trish Byrne, John V. Carr and Claire Lawless, Eniscorthy District Manager outside the old Ballyhogue Stores which faces redevlopment. (File Pic; WexfordLocal.com)
Ballyhogue Development Group Secretary, John V. Carr, announced earlier today via social media that positive developments have arrived ahead of Christmas in Ballyhogue.
“Wexford County Council in conjunction with Ballyhogue Development Group have received €300,000 under the Town and Village Renewal Scheme to transform the old shop/post office into a Community Hub!”, stated Mr. Carr.
The project was initially proposed in 2023, with a public consultation conducted at Ballyhogue National School last June.
The submission was for the delivery of a multi-purpose Community Hub with training facilities, social enterprises and community garden to address an urgent deficit in multi-use community/enterprise facilities in Ballyhogue through converting a vacant shop/post-office.
Wexford County Council acquired the former Ballyhogue Post Office and shop, and a grant application for ‘Ballyhogue Stores’ under the Town & Village Renewal Scheme 2025 was prepared and submitted.
The annual general meeting of Ballyhogue Development Group will be held in the coming weeks where today’s announcement will be welcomed and progressed.
“We are all looking forward to a new future for our little village of Ballyhogue,” concluded Mr Carr.
By Dan Walsh at Enniscorthy Municipal District Council meeting
The annual festival funding allocation agreed for Enniscorthy district for next year remains at the 2025 figure of €106,000, it was revealed at the December meeting of Enniscorthy Municipal District Council held in the Presentation Centre Chamber.
Enniscorthy’s main festival is the annual Rockin’ Food & Fruit Festival.
Topping the list is the Rockin’ Food and Fruit Festival at €40,000, followed closely by the Enniscorthy Christmas promotion at €35,000.
The Festival of Ferns receives €5,000; The Street Rhythms comes in at €4,000; and the Enniscorthy St. Patrick Day Parade at €3,000.
The Blackstairs Blues receives €2,500; the Bunclody Christmas Lights €2,000 and the Bunclody St. Patrick’s Day/Eileen Aroon Festival €1,500.
The Easter Monday Commemorations gets €2,000, and the ’98 Le Chéile in association with the National 1798 Rebellion Centre receives €1,000.
Kiltealy St. Patrick’s Day Parade receives €500. There is also a Festival Support Fund of €9,500 – not sure what that is about, or how it is spent?
Because Fleadh Cheoil na h-Éireann has taken the August Bank Holiday dates for the past two years there may be changes to the 2026 festival dates. However, I’m sure the dates will be sorted soon as the various festival groups hold public meetings and be transparent while encouraging more people to become actively involved.
The Labour Party urges immediate action on the shortage of GP’s (local doctors) given the ongoing Caredoc workers strike, which has arisen due to employees picketing after their employers failed to honour the 2023 commitment to salary increases.
Damien Corish
Labour Party local representative, Damien Corish once again is highlighting the fact that our health system in the South East is not up to standard or nationwide for that matter.
Mr Corish said; Here in the South East, we are still waiting to attend GPs with waiting times lasting weeks.
“In this region there is currently only one GP per 2,033 people that’s 24 GPs for 48,788 citizens with the north Wexford region similar at one GP for every 2,287 citizens and the national average at one GP 1,700 citizens we need an action plan to end the inequality in our society in terms of Healthcare, we are still holding Labour’s survey in relation to GP services and we were asking you to take the survey so we can work towards an equal health service for all.
You can also check the data for your area on the Labour website.”
Uisce Éireann has issued a Boil Water Notice for customers in Wexford town supplied by the Newtown Water Treatment Plant.
This notice is being issued to protect the health of approximately 22,000 customers due to untreated raw water entering the supply.
Drinking water experts from Uisce Éireann are working to rectify the disinfection issues at the treatment plant and lift the notice as quickly and as safely as possible, in consultation with the Health Service Executive (HSE).
Uisce Éireann is also progressing works at the treatment plant to upgrade and improve the supply for the community. In the meantime, all customers on this supply are advised to boil water before use until further notice.
Padraig Lyng, Uisce Éireann, regrets the inconvenience to impacted customers. “Public health is Uisce Éireann’s number one priority and we would like to assure customers that the notice has been put in place to protect public health. We acknowledge the inconvenience caused to homes and businesses and would like to assure customers that we are working to resolve the issue and lift the notice as quickly and as safely possible.”
Vulnerable customers who have registered with Uisce Éireann receive direct communication on Boil Water Notices. Customers are reminded that the water is safe to consume once boiled.
Signing of The Apex Leisure Centre, New Ross integrated design team consultancy services energy retrofit contract in the Council Chamber, Wexford County Council.Back row: Clare Kelly, (Climate Action Officer, Wexford County Council), John Frister, (Energy Engineer, South East Energy Agency), Mark Weinkle (General Manager, The Apex), Cian O’Riordan (Managing Director, PowerTherm Solutions), Joe Fallon (Energy Officer, Wexford County Council), Siona Daly (Regional Energy Manager, South East Energy Unit), Michael Drea (County Secretary, Wexford County Council), Eamonn Hore (Director of Services, Wexford County Council), Loughlin Kilcline (SEAI Pathfinder Programme, Programme Executive). In front: Lorenzo Cammoranesi, Butler Cammoranesi Architects, and Eddie Taaffe (Chief Executive, Wexford County Council).
By Dan Walsh
Wexford County Council has announced a €1.6 million energy retrofit of the Apex Leisure Centre in New Ross.
This ambitious retrofit project, funded through the Sustainable Energy Authority of Ireland (SEAI) Pathfinder Programme grant, match funded by Wexford County Council, aims to decarbonise the leisure centre’s heating systems, improve the building’s overall energy efficiency, while reducing its operational running costs. This project forms part of the Wexford County Council and SEAI Pathfinder Partnership Funding Agreement. The primary objective of the SEAI Pathfinder Programme is to contribute towards Wexford County Council’s ambitious 2030 Carbon Emissions and Energy Efficiency Targets as set out in the Wexford County Council Climate Action Plan which targets a 51% reduction in Green House Gas emissions and a 50% improvement in energy efficiency from a predefined baseline by 2030.
A view from the helm in Wexford Harbour (File Pic; RNLI/Wexford Lorraine Galvin)
By Dan Walsh
A small but dedicated group of volunteers from North Kildare RNLI have raised €117,000 to fund a new D class inshore lifeboat for Wexford RNLI. The new lifeboat is to be named Cill Dara in recognition of the inland branch’s efforts to save lives at sea.
Reaching such a major milestone is testament to the group’s tireless efforts and their long-standing commitment to the charity.
Over the past year, the North Kildare RNLI branch organised a wide range of fundraising events, all of which were widely supported by the local community. These included street collections, notably at the Fleadh Cheoil na h-Éireann in Wexford town last summer.
The branch has a special affinity with Wexford Lifeboat Station because a D class was provided in 2005 by the family of one of the branch’s fundraisers who died suddenly.
Now 20 years on, the branch is honouring that tradition and memory by bringing a new D class lifeboat to Wexford.
Brian Bradshaw, President of North Kildare RNLI, said the achievement was a source of great pride; “This is a wonderful achievement for the branch, and we are proud that due to the significant efforts of many, we have now raised all the funds needed to ensure Wexford RNLI will soon take possession of a new lifeboat and we are equally proud that it will be named Cill Dara. We want to thank everyone who supported our events and many collections over the last year; each and everyone of those people have made a wonderful contribution to the charity and particularly to the lifesaving service in Wexford.”
North Kildare RNLI members fundraising at Fleadh Cheoil na hÉireann in Wexford town last August. (Pic; RNLI/North Kildare).
Wexford RNLI was established in 2002 and provides search and rescue cover for its part of the south-east coast. The station’s existing lifeboat, Alfred William Newman, has been on service since 2015 and in the last decade, launched 142 times, with its volunteer crews coming to the aid of 121 people, four of whom were lives saved.
While it has proudly served the station for 10 years, Wexford RNLI is ready to start a new chapter in lifesaving.
David Sherwood, Wexford RNLI Lifeboat Operations Manager said; “We are so delighted to hear the news that the North Kildarefundraising branch have hit this wonderful milestone that will see our station now receive a new lifeboat. We are incredibly grateful to everyone in the branch for all their efforts over the last year and we want to express our sincere thanks to all involved with the branch and to all who supported their events including the people of Wexford, whether that was buying a ticket and attending an event or by putting money in a collection box. These are vital funds that will power our next chapter in lifesaving at Wexford RNLI.”
The magnificent BARROW BRIDGE, once the longest in Ireland, 15 spans, 650 metres long, built 1902-1906, carried the Wexford-Waterford railway line until its closure in 2010. (File Pic; WexfordLocal.com, 2021).
By Dan Walsh
The All Ireland Strategic Rail Review 2025 does not reference any prospective developments for the Wexford to Waterford line, which ceased operations in 2010, despite its inclusion in the 2024 review.
According to the rail campaign group South East on Track, this action has undone every attempt to restore service on the line overnight.
This week, Engineers Ireland urged the government to prioritise public transport funding over new motorways to offer greener commuting options.
Spokesperson Ciara Murphy says; “South East on Track is calling on the government to prioritise the re-opening of the Wexford-Waterford line and to oppositionTDs in the region to seek clarity andtransparency regarding this knee-jerk decision to halt regional development and progress in the south east.”
Assisted by the European Investment Bank (EIB), the Rail Project Prioritisation Strategy was published on Tuesday by the Department of Transport and Department for Infrastructure.
The Strategy outlines how to best sequence and optimise the recommendations of the All-Island Strategic Rail Review, which was launched following public consultation in July 2024 when the Minister for Transport was Green Party member Eamonn Ryan TD.
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