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Wexford Town in 2025.

Music stores in Wexford

Most music stores in Wexford Town have closed since 2000 as streaming and digital sales replaced physical media. Whites For Music, the last general CD shop and the county’s only Ticketmaster centre, closed in June 2014.

Wexford County Council

Community tourism grants scheme launched

Wexford County Council has opened applications for the third year of the Community Tourism Initiative for the Diaspora. The €1m fund supported 19 local events in County Wexford in 2015, attracting up to 2,000 overseas visitors.

Who will win the 2016 General Election?

Paddy Power’s odds for the 2016 General Election offer an alternative to opinion polls, predicting Fine Gael will fall to 61 seats and Labour to 12, its worst result since 1987.

South Main Street, Wexford

The killing of Barbara Berry

On Saturday, the 23rd of March, 1916, a traveller woman called Barbara Berry was fatally stabbed in the heart on Wexford’s Main Street.