This week the Department of Community and Rural Development announced €112,659.10 in funding for Wexford as part of the Outdoor Recreation Infrastructure Scheme. The investment will ensure safe access and improvements to many trails around the county and is a great boost for rural Wexford. As many more of us READ MORE
News
New Wexford Greens Committee in Place
Wexford Greens held its AGM this week. It was an online affair but no less exciting for all that. The new committee: Role Person Chair Bobby Lambert Secretary Kim Achari Treasurer Martin Reading Communications/PRO Killian Ormond Elections Officer Paula Roseingrave Policy Council Delegate Kamal Tribak Local Issues Officer Brendan Cahill-Flynn READ MORE
Minister O’Brien welcomes response to 2020 Voids Stimulus Programme
The Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage, Darragh O’Brien TD, has welcomed the response to the 2020 Voids Stimulus Programme which will see up to 2,500 social housing units refurbished and re-let to individuals and families, struggling with homelessness or on the social housing list. As part of the READ MORE
Minister Eamon Ryan Launches Waste Action Plan for a Circular Economy
Ireland’s National Waste Policy 2020 – 2025 provides a roadmap to transition to a circular economy in the decade ahead. READ MORE
Nobody said it was going to be easy
The new government has had some teething problems. Some of this can be put down to organisational naivety and/or sloppiness, such as the occasional unfortunate bout of mixed messages regarding changes to COVID restrictions. More recently we have seen a lack of experience and, to be honest, basic cop-on as READ MORE
EU Recovery Fund a step in the right direction but it has a few glaring omissions
This week, the European Council reached agreement on the European Union’s long-term budget and a recovery fund aimed at helping economies bounce back from the impact of Covid-19. Green MEP for Dublin Ciarán Cuffe says the deal is disappointing and does not match the scale of the challenge the EU faces, both READ MORE
Town Centres Living pilot project
The pandemic-induced lockdown was, in every sense, an unexpected shock to people all over planet Earth. We are, by nature, creatures of habit and we do not like system failure of the kind that causes us to forego the habitual. How strange it was to stroll along Wexford town’s deserted Main READ MORE
Courtown Beach ‘Swept Away’
‘Throughout the country, our shores are being ravaged by erosion which has been exacerbated in recent years due to the effects of climate change. Courtown is a very dramatic example with its beautiful golden sands effectively swept away virtually overnight. But all along the coast erosion is to be seen, READ MORE
Crunch time for the Greens
Green Party members from all over the island of Ireland have spent today tuned into an all-day online Special Convention to decide whether or not the party should go into government on the basis of the draft Programme for Government. The contributions from the party’s spokespeople, TDs and councillors have been READ MORE
Wexford Festival bows to the inevitable
Wexford Festival Opera has just announced that, due to the continuing impact of the pandemic, it will not be running with a physical event this year. The event will, instead, be a totally online affair starting Oct 11 and ending Oct 18. And it’s all free. This is a terrible READ MORE
Draft Programme for Government
FG, FF and the Green Party have, between them, come up with a draft Programme for Government. The GP Parliamentary Party has accepted it – 9 votes in favour, 3 abstentions and none against. The party membership will now vote on it – a 2/3 majority is required. The programme READ MORE
Webinar: Re-imagining our cities and towns in times of Covid-19
This Thursday, 28th May, Ciarán Cuffe MEP will host a free webinar entitled: Re-imagining our cities and towns in times of Covid-19: Opportunities and challenges for mobility and public space. The Covid-19 pandemic has transformed the way we live our lives. The way we move around and use our urban spaces READ MORE
Green Party enters negotiations
“Our Parliamentary Party members have carefully weighed up their options and decided to go into negotiations. They are now looking for a deal that can fulfil their mandate to deliver the Party policy, for which they campaigned during the General Election, in these changed times, as is their responsibility as READ MORE
Opportunity for members to join policy groups
The Green Party is establishing new policy groups and it invites party members to explore the list of proposed groups and join whichever one best covers that members main area of interest. “These Groups have the goal of creating new, or updating existing, policy in their respective area. Please be READ MORE
Government formation: What do Wexford Greens think?
Wexford Greens have advised the GP team charged with exploring the possibility of the party going into government as follows … From Wexford Greens meeting 19 Feb, 2020: Should the Greens agree to enter government as a minority partner or fight from the opposition benches? Is there any party with READ MORE
COVID Posters
The HSE has some well designed and easy to read COVID-related posters available for download. READ MORE
Green Party leader calls for National Unity Government
Leader of the Green Party Eamon Ryan has called on his Dáil colleague to form a crisis National Unity Government to deal with the extraordinary position in which the country, and the World, presently finds itself. Sounds good in theory: stability and unity of purpose trumps everything else right now. However, READ MORE
Message from Green Party leader Eamon Ryan
Dear fellow members, I hope you and your friends and family are safe and well. Fear is everywhere in the air with the Coronavirus and the only antidote to hand is hope in the power of collective action to help us through these difficult times. READ MORE
Letterkenny hosts Green Party Convention
This year’s Green Party Convention takes place halfways between Wexford and Reykjavik, which is to say Letterkenny, June 6 and 7. READ MORE
Green Party talks to all parties in its efforts to form government
So, what’s the latest on the Green Party’s efforts to find consensus with other parties re putting together a workable government? Listen to party leader, Eamon Ryan. And here’s here’s new Green TD Joe O’Brien‘s take on it. When he speaks of parties going through each other’s manifestos he makes it READ MORE
Green Tsunami!
The Green Party has just enjoyed its biggest success yet in a General Election, leaping from 2 seats to 12. This great result has been hard-won both at local and national levels. Full credit to party leader Eamon Ryan for keeping a steady hand on the tiller and taking the party READ MORE
Election Day at last
In our final post of the evening before Election Day, Paula Roseingrave’s Election Agent, Paul Dubsky, encourages everyone to get out and vote tomorrow. And to vote Green! READ MORE
Friday canvassing reminder!
Meeting at Bullring Market in Wexford town at 11am this Friday, Feb 7. Paula will be stopping at various points between Coolgreaney and Wexford throughout the morning and will be at The Bullring for round 2 at 2pm. Try make either the morning or afternoon session. One final push! READ MORE
MEP Grace O’Sullivan endorses Paula’s campaign
Wexford Green Party candidate Paula Roseingrave with MEP Grace O’Sullivan on the top floor balcony of the National Opera House, Wexford. Grace was speaking at the excellent Wexford Local Development event ‘Are We There Yet? Community Actions for Climate Justice’. READ MORE
Paula is Green Party candidate for Wexford
Paula Roseingrave (right) is the Green Party candidate for Wexford in the upcoming General Election. Here she is with MEP Grace O’Sullivan and committee member Martin Reading. Paula will be joining us at The Bullring, Wexford this Saturday(Jan 25) at 2.30pm. Please join us if you are free. READ MORE
Join us in Wexford town this Friday
Wexford Greens are planning a big canvas of Wexford town next Friday morning. Karin Dubsky and her campaign team will be there. If you have an hour or two to spare in the morning we would love to see you. Meet at Selskar Square (beside Greenacres) at 11am. If you are READ MORE
Karin needs your support!
There is a General Election coming, although no one is sure when exactly the government will call it. Before it is called there may be a number of by-elections, including one in Wexford. Whatever happens the Green Party is ready and waiting. Wexford Green Party candidate, Karin Dubsky, is already getting READ MORE
Karin Dubsky sets out her stall at exhibition talk
Karin Dubsky gave a stirring talk in Wexford town last weekend when outlining her reasons for moving from activist to politician. The party announced the previous week that she had been selected to run in the upcoming Wexford by-election. “I’m honoured to be the Green Party candidate,” said Karin READ MORE
Green Party candidate Karin Dubsky to speak at Wexford festival exhibition
Karin Dubsky, the Green Party candidate in the upcoming Wexford by-election, is looking forward to speaking at a Wexford Fringe Festival exhibition in Wexford town which features the work of Hanneke van Ryswyk and Serena Caulfield. Hanneke, based in Blackwater, is one of Wexford’s most exciting and innovative artists. Her READ MORE
Karin Dubsky to stand for Green Party
We are delighted that marine ecologist and founder of Coastwatch Europe Karin Dubsky is to stand for the Green Party in the upcoming by-election. Karin lives in Ballymoney. She is a post graduate scientist researcher, consultant and teacher. She works at the Department of Civil, Structural and Environmental Engineering in Trinity College Dublin, READ MORE
Grace O’Sullivan is ready for Europe!
Senator Grace O’Sullivan was in Wexford today. She has been getting a great reaction on the hustings. A former Irish surf champion she has earned a reputation as a committed activist and environmentalist, one not afraid to speak her mind. “My overarching vision is for a fairer, more equitable Ireland, where READ MORE
CLIMATE CASE IRELAND
Friends of the Irish Environment is taking the Irish Government to court. This legal action is the first case in Ireland in which citizens are seeking to hold their government accountable for its role in knowingly contributing to dangerous levels of climate change. Read all about it: www.climatecaseireland.ie READ MORE
Birdwatch Ireland and the Heritage Bill
“The proposed changes are the most significant roll back of the legal protections for our wildlife ever in the State. The government is reducing the protections for our birds and nature at a time when we should be ensuring greater protection for vulnerable wildlife, particularly as Ireland prides itself as READ MORE
200 million euro capital programme for Wexford
“We have taken a serious look at our County”, says Chief Executive of Wexford County Council Tom Enright, “and we have developed a range of strategic responses aimed at making Wexford a highly competitive location for business start-ups and longer term growth”. These “strategic responses” include a list of planned capital READ MORE
Hinkley Point C Nuclear Plant
The controversial and way over-budget Hinkley Point C Nuclear Plant is presently under construction in Somerset. To satisfy an EU Directive by which member states must engage in public consultation with neighbouring member states regarding projects likely to have significant effects on the environment of those states Ireland has recently READ MORE
Same Old, Same Old!
So Barry Cowan wants builders to get a tax cut to encourage them to build more houses. Sinn Féin has described the idea as “breathtakingly stupid”. In fairness to the man, maybe he is not stupid but simply self-serving. Then again his party has always had a very intimate relationship with READ MORE
Climate Change: the government still doesn’t get it
Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment Denis Naughton has been getting it in the neck this week for his hopelessly lacklustre and unambitious draft National Mitigation Plan, a requirement of new climate change laws enacted two years ago. “It is clear that there are no easy options to reduce our greenhouse READ MORE
Waterford to host Convention 2017
Green Party Convention 2017 takes place in Waterford at the Tower Hotel from 24-26 March. We hope to give what ever support we can to our friends in the Deise County to help make sure the event is a success. READ MORE
Challenges facing Rural Ireland
There’s a good article in The Irish Times today on the decline of rural areas, not just in Ireland, but all over Europe. The populations of our towns and villages, especially in the west, are shrinking. The worker-hungry Industrial Revolution saw the first great migration of people from rural areas to the cities. READ MORE
South East Economy Continues to Stagnate
A new report produced by WIT School of Business says that the southeast region of the country continues to lag behind other regions when it comes to the health of the local economy. We have greater unemployment, lower IDA-led job-creation, lower educational attainment, lower quality of jobs. Wexford People READ MORE
No Minister for Environment?
“How much do I love thee environment?” asks An Taoiseach Enda Kenny. “Let me count the ways” … NOT! That is why he has just done away with the Minister for Environment portfolio. Instead, we now have in Denis Naughton, a Minister for Communication, Climate Change and Natural Resources. Incidently, READ MORE
Green Party welcomes Government u-turn on introducing pay-by-weight charges
The Green Party has welcomed the Government u-turn on introducing mandatory minimum pay-by-weight charges for the collection of household recyclables. It says that the Government must now do more to promote recycling over landfill or incineration as part of its efforts to bring about better waste management. “I’m glad that READ MORE
Green TD attacks parties for putting politics ahead of country
New Green Party TD Catherine Martin made her maiden speech in the Dáil today. And what a speech. She focused on something that has been exercising the national media for the past 47 days and she said what most of the country has been thinking: “How can the current strangulation READ MORE
‘This election is make or break for the Green Party’
Good article by Cara Augustenborg in today’s Indo. The current outgoing Dáil was much the poorer for not having a green voice. The so called establishment parties (on the right, less right and centre!) have barely a word to say on climate change and how we should prepare to deal READ MORE
Next politician that calls to your door ask him/her to outline their party’s environmental policy
With #GE16 almost upon us we hope that whoever ends up with their hands on the tiller of the good ship Ireland can deliver on all the pre-election promises made. On the environmental front we want to see a focus on four key areas:• truly sustainable jobs• end environmental destruction• READ MORE
Same as it ever was!
“Same as it ever was” sang David Byrne of Talking Heads. He might well have been talking about the performance of our political leaders in the first of the pre-election Leaders’ Debates on RTE 1. The amount of populist rhetoric and selective amnesia along with over-promising, trumpet-blowing, self-praising drivel we witnessed READ MORE
So where does the Green Party stand on the 8th Amendment?
In the Green Party, positions such as these are agreed by a 66% vote of our members. In the past, the Green Party has had no position on repeal or otherwise of the 8th amendment. At our most recent convention (2016), it was resolved that the party would take a READ MORE
Green Party leader Eamon Ryan to speak in Gorey
Green Party leader, Eamon Ryan, speaks at the Ashdown Park Hotel, Gorey this Friday, Feb 5, at 7.30pm. Eamon is coming to Wexford with a message: it is time for the Greens to make their voice heard again in the Dáil. It may be a small voice but it is READ MORE
Ann’s Election Launch Evening A Great Success
Wexford Green Party’s candidate in the General Election, Ann Walsh, pulled a big crowd to her launch party last Friday. I think it is fair to say that this is the very first Green Party event ever at The Golden Anchor in Castletown, the county’s most northerly village. Independent Wicklow Councillor, READ MORE
Green Party Election Convention 2016
The 2016 Green Party Election Convention takes place January 16th in the Hilton Hotel, Dublin 2. We are looking forward to meeting up with fellow members and friends of the Greens and to hearing from our candidates from around the island. The day promises to be full of interesting and interactive debates. https://www.eventbrite.ie/e/green-party-election-convention-tickets-19574367460 READ MORE
Eamon Ryan and the Green Party could bring a fresh perspective to political landscape says Irish Examiner
Eamon Ryan and the Green Party could bring a fresh perspective to political landscape says Alison O’Connor writing today in the Irish Examiner. Referring to Ryan she says “Listening to him it’s hard not to come to the conclusion that Irish politics is a better place with the Greens in READ MORE
Ann’s Election Campaign Launch
Ann Walsh officially launches her election campaign on Friday 8th Jan at 7.15pm at the Golden Anchor in Castletown. Trevor Sargent will attend and speak. Ann herself will outline her reasons for running and detail why she believes the Green voice must be heard now more than ever. Everyone is welcome to READ MORE
Politicians should not be let within an ass’s roar of anything to do with planning
There is more than sufficient evidence to show that our politicians, national and local, cannot be trusted to deliver proper implementation of planning policy. The Celtic Tiger years particularly brought this to the fore. Consider this: tax breaks (to encourage you to build for speculative rather than local needs); putting READ MORE
“Housing crisis emerges as single biggest election issue”, says newspaper
The Irish Times reports that, according to a survey carried out by www.whichcandidate.ie, housing and health are the issues at the top of the list of most candidates in the upcoming General Election. Other items getting prominent mention were education, water charges, jobs and abortion. http://www.irishtimes.com/news/politics/housing-crisis-emerges-as-single-biggest-election-issue-1.2473076#.VnfMmOGM_8E.facebook READ MORE
Community Energy Proclamation
We like this ‘Proclamation’ in which the community is central to the process of making the transition to “a clean, secure energy future”: https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B91skN4BggMWTzFxd1MxeFFob1k/view READ MORE
Wexford Green Party announces candidate for General Election 2016
The Green Party has announced that Ann Walsh will be the party’s candidate for Co Wexford in the 2016 General Election. Ann, originally from New Ross but now living in Castletown, says she is very much looking forward to the challenge. “The Green Party has always represented integrity and I READ MORE
Wexford Local Economic and Community Plan (LECP) 2016-2021
Wexford County Council is presently working on the Wexford Local Economic and Community Plan (LECP) 2016-2021. September 22 is the deadline for public submissions. A draft Socio-Economic Statement identifying the following six high level goals has been prepared: 1 Foster the culture of educational attainment and lifelong learning in County Wexford and READ MORE
Wexford’s Redmond Park to be upgraded
We are delighted to report that, following representations made to Wexford County Council, Redmond Park is to have funds allocated to its upgrading. We understand that top of the list is the playground, followed by plans to bring back the much-missed pond. The Love Redmond Park group is also pushing READ MORE
Taoiseach places his own self-preservation above all else
There is a well written opinion piece, “Fennelly highlights ruthlessness of the Taoiseach when the chips are down”, in The Wexford People this week (link below). I presume it is in all the other local and regional newspapers in the INM group also. The thrust of the article is that, READ MORE
Launch of Future-Proof Wexford
The launch of Future-Proof Wexford took place this week (Sept 8) at Wexford Library. Guest speaker was Davie Philip of the Cloughjordan Ecovillage and the organisation Cultivate. The aim of this initiative is to get Wexford to get serious about facing up to the challenges that lie ahead, not least of which READ MORE
Minister Brendan Howlin
Minister for Public Expenditure, Brendan Howlin, says that he now regrets the government’s decision to abolish town councils. Could this be the start of the pre-election charm offensive? http://www.irishtimes.com/news/politics/town-council-abolition-a-mistake-which-should-be-reversed-says-brendan-howlin-1.2122098?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=twitter READ MORE
Carcur Park may not happen after all
A recent meeting of Wexford Municipal District Council discussed the proposed new ‘People’s Park’ at Carcur, Wexford. The meeting was told by the Director of Services with responsibility for Wexford that the Council might have to either downsize the proposed park or do away with it altogether. The reason given READ MORE
Economist Peter Bacon says government contributed to boom years property price rises
Speaking today at the Joint Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis economist Dr Peter Bacon said the government contributed to the run-away property price rises. The government had asked Dr Bacon for recommendations on how to deal with the rapidly over-heating property market they then reversed a number of READ MORE
A Pesticides Levy makes good sense
One welcome development in general household food purchasing and consumption is how much more questioning we are of food provenance. Most of us also make some effort to eat a healthier diet (more fruit and veg, less red meat, less fats, more fibre). And most of us prefer to buy READ MORE
Nuclear Power? No thanks Minister!
Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources Alex White decided to end the old year on a low by pushing the nuclear power option back onto the agenda. We could say “Fair enough so: let’s look at nuclear power, let’s compare it with the alternatives and let’s go for the solution READ MORE
Water Charges March
The latest anti-water charges march happens in Dublin today. We will not be there. Notwithstanding the government’s ham-fisted efforts in bringing in water charges we believe that we should pay – and not a general, but a specific, tax – for the provision of potable water and the disposal of READ MORE
‘Traditional Parties Have led Ireland into the Abyss’
Here’s a link to an interesting article by Independent TD Stephen Donnelly entitled ‘Traditional Parties Have led Ireland into the Abyss’: http://stephendonnelly.ie/traditional-parties-have-led-ireland-into-the-abyss-a-new-party-can-help-rescue-it All across Europe trust in the established parties is at an all-time low. Ireland is no exception. According to this week’s Red C poll FG is experiencing its lowest READ MORE
The End Game
So the government thought it was going to placate the masses with a relatively benign budget and what do we do? We snub our noses at it and say “too little, too late”. We cannot forgive them for asking to tighten our belts and then watch as the Irish Water story unravels. READ MORE
HOW CAN I RESPOND TO INJUSTICES CAUSED BY CLIMATE CHANGE?
You can find out at St Iberius Church, Wexford on Thursday, Oct 30 (7.30pm). The occasion is International Day of Prayer for Climate Justice. What better time could there be to take an objective and reflective look at an issue which is going to affect us all to a greater READ MORE
You would almost be feeling sorry for our blue-shirted friends. Almost.
Listening to the news today it feels like the good times are back. One hears that unemployment continues to fall (now at its lowest level since 2009), job creation is going up, the economy is performing strongly and “could bounce back more quickly than expected” (Davy Stockbrokers), house prices are READ MORE
Wexford gets ready to party at annual Opera Festival
While most towns on the island have put Summer well behind them and, with ever shorter and cooler Autumnal days, have begun to batten down the hatches for the Winter. They will keep the heads down until Christmas. Not so in Wexford. For come mid October we will be dusting off our READ MORE
Wexford wins bronze in 2014 Tidy Towns
Well done to Wexford Tidy Towns in winning bronze at the recent Tidy Towns Awards. Many man (and woman) hours have gone into getting us to this point. The weekend cleanups regularly attract in excess of twenty volunteers. There are also smaller midweek groups who tackle the towns streets, and READ MORE
Are we heading for another housing-led boom?
For house prices the only way right now seems to be up. According to the latest report from the Economic and Social Research Institute the Irish market still appears to be undervalued. While the upward trend is partly down to natural correction much of it is down to poor supply, especially READ MORE
Poolbeg incinerator looks like becoming a reality
We hear today that the National Development Finance Agency has cleared the way for the controversial incinerator to go ahead in Poolbeg. What a shame. Dublin City Council has, from the start, made no bones about its commitment to the project regardless of cost and the impact on the environment. READ MORE
Wexford County Council leads by example on biodiversity front
If you have been to the Council’s new offices in Carriglawn you cannot have failed to notice the multi-coloured splash of colour coming from the wild flowers and grasses near the main entrance. This is a very positive statement of intent from the Council that the whole area of biodiversity READ MORE
Food and climate change – breaking the link
We know that with the effects of climate change ever more visible and that, with current political inaction and general lack of political will, we can expect those effects to continue ever upwards we cannot continue to behave and consume as we do. Prof Timothy Lang gets the point across READ MORE
Government cutbacks means environment suffers
One of the unfortunate impacts of the government’s austerity programme is not only that standards fall but that things simply do not get done. Check the newspapers on any day and you will find examples of this in one or other sector: hospital operations not happening, medical cards not getting issued READ MORE
So should government listen to IMF and continue with current austerity programme?
The IMF has stated that Ireland should continue with plans for a €2 billion budget adjustment next year notwithstanding strong economic growth here. Joan Burton, the likely new leader of the Labour Party, “has indicated that her intention is to remain in the coalition and to maintain the fiscal targets for 2015, READ MORE
Government’s U-turn on discretionary medical cards
The government’s U-turn on discretionary medical cards along with the announcement that eligibility may in the future be determined by medical need is further evidence that Fine Gael & Labour do not have the stomach to change our unfair two-tier health system. Green Party Health Spokesperson, Oisin Ó hAlmhain, says: “Allocating READ MORE
Working Group Report on Citizen Engagement with Local Government
A working group, under the chair of Fr Sean Healy, presented this report to Phil Hogan T.D. Minister for the Environment, Community & Local Government. The Department published it in February 2014. I like the look of it. That said, it has the look of something that the Minister would READ MORE
Elections – don’t you just love ’em!
The elections were some craic though weren’t they? The tension, the drama, the pontificating experts, the cliff-hanger outcomes, the grey stoic faces of the vanquished, the whoops of joy from the victorious. Live theatre at its best. John Bowman was happy as a child on confirmation day, Noel Whelan was READ MORE
Health Service is still not working says departing Hiqa head
We all know that there are major problems with our health service – long waiting times, shortage of senior doctors, unreliable ambulance service, cost overruns, withdrawing of medical cards from needy families, etc. We know that some of this may be put down to austerity measures brought in by the READ MORE
With elections looming Labour’s Joan Burton breaks her silence!
Minister for Social Protection Joan Burton finally decides enough is enough and she is making a stand. She wants no cuts to her department’s budget. We read in the Indo that the Minister “launched a scathing attack on a number of her Fine Gael Cabinet colleagues”. So you see she READ MORE
‘Kick up the arse’
I read in www.thejournal.ie that, on the subject of the first pre-election opinion poll (the Irish Indo’s Millward Brown poll), a Fine Gael party source has described it as “a long overdue kick up the arse”. http://www.thejournal.ie/european-election-opinion-poll-labour-1436968-Apr2014 READ MORE
Wexford Tidy Towns launches “Let’s Bee Friendly” project
Wexford Tidy Towns launches its “Let’s Bee Friendly” project this Thursday, April 10 at 7pm in Wexford Town Library. “Let’s Bee Friendly” is an exciting biodiversity project, developed in association with Wexford County Council, to generate greater awareness of the importance of bees as pollinators and what we can do READ MORE
Glenbrook residents fear for their health because of old hospital dump
Glenbrook Estate lies in the shadow of the old Wexford hospital. Unfortunately for its residents it also sits right next to a dump they did not know about on the old hospital grounds. Suffice to say that they know now! Those residents whose houses back on to the dump have READ MORE
Our Leader is not happy with Labour!
Green Party leader Eamon Ryan is not happy. Of Labour in power he has this to say: “Broken promises and missed opportunities”. Over the last two and a half years, he says the Labour Party has had to break every false promise they made to the Irish people READ MORE
Support your local producers market
If you do nothing else this week make sure you make a trip to your local food and craft producers market. Every Friday morning the Bullring Market in Wexford town comes alive with discerning foodies and lovers of locally made crafts. Chemical-free food? Check. Absence of air-miles? Check. Value for READ MORE
12 Months of FG/Lab Government, 12 Ways Ireland is Less Green
Green Party leader Eamon Ryan says that “For every month this Government has been in office they have found ways to make our country less Green.” He goes on to say that “At a time when Governments across the world are starting to see the economic sense in going green, READ MORE
Wexford Town Crying Out For Allotments
Do you think Wexford town needs allotments? If yes we want to hear from you. A recent attempt to set up an allotments scheme in a lovely old walled garden adjacent to town foundered just before it was due to open. We say that this issue is too important to READ MORE
What Does It Take To Make One Rich Man?
“And I would ask the political economists, the moralists, if they have already calculated the number of individuals who must be condemned to wretchedness, to overwork, to demoralization, to infantilization, to despicable ignorance, to insurmountable misfortune, to utter penury, in order to produce one rich person.” José Saramago READ MORE
Wexford Resilience
We like this piece from the Future-Proof Wexford blog on the Wexford Resilience Group. The piece points out that while this group is tasked with dealing with extreme events arising, there is no group planning for ‘shocks’ which may hit in the future. COMMUNITY RESILIENCE – THINKING AHEAD READ MORE