A Wexford councillor who teaches in a local secondary school has said young people have told him they “no longer feel as safe as they once did here” due to the recent arson attacks and protests at accommodation centres across the country. Councillor Jim Codd, who works as a secondary school teacher in Bridgetown College, said pupils attending his school having arrived here from Ukraine and other war-torn nations have been deeply impacted by protests and “horrific online commentary”.
Students and parents in Wexford were left reeling yesterday after receiving a text to say that their regular school bus service was not going to be in operation from Monday 8th January, leaving some with no way of getting to school following the Christmas break.
As many as 50 Wexford schoolchildren are facing the prospect of having no bus to bring them to school next Monday after Bus Éireann announced their service had been temporarily cancelled.
A freak weather event which tore through a Wexford house “like a train” has left sheet metal and debris scattered across fields and ditches up to a kilometre away. Occurring during Storm Gerrit, a severe wind, which locals in the village of Duncormick described as being like a tornado, ripped through the home of Daniel Lambert in the early hours of Thursday morning.