Sinn Féin president Gerry Adams will contest the Co Louth seat in Ireland's next General Election, party sources confirmed today.

IT was with some trepidation that I read Enniscorthy Town Council has agreed to a statue in the town to the so-called Edentubber Martyrs who died while preparing one of their own bombs just south of the border in 1957.

TO my dismay, I discovered recently that Enniscorthy Town Council has approved the erection of a stone memorial on public space in the town honouring the IRA border “campaign” of the 1950s – in particular, the 1957 Edentubber bombers, two of whom were natives of Co Wexford.