Publication
Shamrocks aplenty as St Patrick’s Day parades across county leave all ages beaming
On a blustery, changeable spring day, St Patrick’s Day parades across the Garden County celebrated everything good about being Irish and part of our local communities. From dance schools, to emergency service volunteers, Tidy Towns groups to...
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“And as I get older, I think: ‘What is the world we’re bringing kids into?’”
‘The world is f**ked,” Laura Whitmore says. “We’re watching people dying on real time on our phones, people in huge crisis, being killed all over the world. You can watch people getting their house bombed – that is happening now, and no one is doing...
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Sadness as beloved musician, artist and author dies
Tributes have been paid to the well-loved Wicklow artist, writer and musician Ray Cranley, ‘the bard of Windgates’, following his passing at home, on Sunday, March 1. Ray had a reputation as a man of boundless creativity, who spent his life doing what...
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Campaign group halt major housing plans
A major mixed-use development proposed for Enniskerry has been refused permission on appeal by An Coimisiún Pleanála (formerly An Bord Pleanála) following concerns that the project could harm the highly sensitive Knocksink Wood Special Area of...
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Man admits breach of sex offenders list rules
A Wexford man who previously served a 14-year prison sentence for rape has pleaded guilty over failing to comply with sex offender notification requirements John Connors (43), with an address at Burnaby Park, Greystones, County Wicklow, appeared at a...
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Year of the Fire Horse gallops into Bray
● Jiexin Fan, who gave a Hulusi recital at the Chinese New Year Gala at Loreto Secondary School Bray. Photo: Leigh Anderson.
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Students celebrate diversity by sharing their native customs, costumes and food
Food, costumes, customs and an abundance of colour were on display once more as St Kilian’s Community School, Bray, held another hugely successful Multicultural Day to celebrate inclusion and cultural diversity as one of its proudest principles. It was...
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Volunteers rally to help rebuild home for girl with rare cancer
The father of a 10- year- old girl from Bray, who was diagnosed with cancer in July last year, has said he “never thought we would be at the receiving end” of the generosity shown by the community, as people have rallied to renovate the family home for...
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Plaque to remember Sinéad O’Connor
Wicklow County Council have approved plans to alter parts of the late Sinead O’Connor’s former home in Bray. There have been calls for a memorial plaque at the home of the late star ever since her passing in July, 2023. The seafront, Victorian-style...
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