Former Fine Gael by-election Verona Murphy is to announce on Tuesday whether she will run as an Independent candidate in Wexford in the upcoming General Election.

Facilities may only be one small step towards sporting success, but many in athletics are in celebration mode after various projects took a giant leap towards becoming reality.

Local authorities are insured by Irish Public Bodies, which deals with claims for issues such as slips and trips on footpaths and damage to cars caused by potholes.

Legal threats from coal firms have stopped the Government from introducing a nationwide ban on smoky coal which environmental activists and opposition parties are demanding.

Mick Wallace was known as a straight talker in the Dáil and it will be a straight shootout between Fianna Fáil and Fine Gael to replace him.

The two men who were killed in the crash have been named locally as Peter Tawse, 61, from Old Ross in Co Wexford, and 58-year-old John Finnan from Naas in Co Kildare.

At one time, there were anything up to 1,500 of them, dotted around the country.

The 39km section of the M11 goes from Gorey to Enniscorthy, which will be now be bypassed.

An independent local councillor in Wexford claims that there is “a lot of smoke and mirrors” around the decision by Irish Ferries to halt its service from Rosslare.

From Rathcoole, Co Cork, in 1968, to Screggan, Co Offaly, Ray Ryan has seen it all and enjoyed it

Over 500,000 emergency alerts were seen by people since Sunday using an extreme weather alert service developed by a former council official.

Archaeologists have found mass graves which they believe contain the remains of women and children who were massacred on a battlefield during the last stand of the 1798 Rebellion.

“While the results of our surveys have exceeded all expectations, they have also revealed that Vinegar Hill has been extensively stripped by illegal [metal] detectorists, and impacted mby various developments, both of which have had a profound and detrimental impact on our knowledge,” said Ronan O’Flaherty.

The HSE has moved to reassure those concerned about derelict, or mostly unused, properties it owns that steps are being taken to ensure they do not meet the same fate as the St Kevin’s facility in Cork which was gutted by fire this week.

More than 10,000 complaints of antisocial behaviour were made to local authorities in the last two years, many relating to housing, according to new figures.

A High Court challenge has been mounted against the refusal by Bord Pleanála to give the go-ahead for a solar power-generating facility in the south-east.

Tánaiste Frances Fitzgerald and Garda Commissioner Noirín O’Sullivan will be joined by one-time US presidential hopeful Martin O’Malley and Bernie Sanders strategist Tadd Devine on a heavy-hitting schedule for this year’s Kennedy Summer School.

Although no solar farms have yet been built in the Republic, a handful of projects have been granted planning permission.

Councils are ignoring planning guidelines that keep fast-food premises away from schools. Just one local authority has written the policy into its development plans.

Brooklyn will be coming “home” to Enniscorthy tonight for a special screening of the Oscar-tipped movie when the source novel’s author Colm Toibín will be the guest of honour.

There were at least 4,089 complaints regarding alleged antisocial behaviour (ASB) in 21 local authority areas last year — and the number of difficult tenants removed from their homes could rise this year as councils enact new powers.

Three counties in the SouthEast have submitted their joint bid for the European Capital of Culture title for 2020.

A select collection of works by Jack Butler Yeats and John Butler Yeats from the Model arts centre in Sligo, home of the important Niland Collection, have gone on tour for the first time with the opening of an exhibition in Wexford at the weekend.

An all-weather running track and associated facilities were officially opened in Enniscorthy at the weekend as part of a €1m sports hub.

Two county councils ran up debts of nearly €30m buying land for social housing schemes — only for the sites to later be deemed "unsuitable for residential development".

A fresh row has hit the new Cabinet with the revelation that state jobs were handed out to Coalition cronies — just days before they switched posts.

Gerard Howlin’s article (Opinion, June 25) highlights the importance of Brian Crowley reconsidering his decision to unilaterally leave the centrist Alliance for Liberals and Democrats in Europe (ALDE) group for the right-wing, eurosceptic European Conservatives and Reformists (ECR) group.

Former Wexford hurling legend Martin Storey is set to join Wexford County Council.

Bumper pension payoffs last year to five retiring county and city managers totalling €1.3m were last night described as “obscene.”

The lack of an appeal mechanism for those refused a property tax waiver has left councils and owners disappointed, writes Seán McCárthaigh

The Department of the Environment has written to all county and city managers giving updated details of the sums deducted from their funding as a result of the non-payment of the €100 household charge.

The body of an 18-year-old boy was recovered from a quarry outside Wexford town after a swimming outing with friends went horribly wrong.

Wexford County Council is considering a proposal to bulldoze ghost estates.

A LOCAL authority has denied that sewage treatment work being carried out could compromise the water at a holy well which many local people believe has curative powers.

FARMERS in Co Wexford have been outraged by a proposal to stop any building on lands designated for the route of the proposed N11/N25 road from Oylegate to Rosslare Harbour — even though the National Roads Authority, Department of Transport and Wexford County Council have no budget to buy the land or build the road, according to the IFA.

SENATOR David Norris has secured the nomination of Fingal County Council in his bid become the country’s next president.

AFTER a low of -9C in some parts of the country overnight, Met Éireann is predicting another 48 hours of bitterly cold weather before temperatures finally begin to rise once more.

AS the big freeze took hold again overnight, road conditions remained dangerous with the lack of gritting on minor roads an ongoing problem.

OLD fishing nets are to be recycled to create an eco-friendly underwater protection barrier for New Ross Marina, Co Wexford.

Planners have given the green light for the country’s first natural graveyard banning marble headstones and varnished, hardwood coffins, it was revealed today.