I USED to think Shillelagh was a placename invented for American movies.

The Government is to meet in Charles Stewart Parnell’s former home in Co Wicklow as part of the county’s 400th birthday celebrations.

THE unusually tough stance adopted by the Environmental Protection Agency in the Roadstone dumping controversy will be welcomed up and down the country, especially in scenic areas where cowboy operators have been tipping waste for years.

Preserved by Nick Sandler and Johnny Acton, has just been published by Kyle Cathie Ltd, London. www.kylecathie.ie.

A major illegal dump by construction giant, Cement Roadstone Holdings Plc in West Wicklow has already contaminated the area’s groundwater, it was claimed today.

WICKLOW – the Garden of Ireland. Kind of ironic, isn't it?

IT is a damning indictment of Ireland’s failure to manage its growing mountain of waste that it required a name-and-shame seminar to elicit news that a three-year-old Brussels directive aimed at cleaning up landfill sites has at long last been signed

SCAVANGING paid dividends for the owners of a 1960s-built Wicklow home - they conducted a thoughtful plundering of architectural salvage at a time before it was either popular or profitable made the house what it is today.