The chairperson of Wexford Memorial Trust Helen Corish Wylde has called for Wexford Union Workhouse, known today as the old Wexford Hospital, to be restored as a museum or education centre.
Laois students virtually walking to Lourdes for homeless
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Two Laois students are inviting people to virtually walk to Lourdes and to donate to a Laois charity, Portlaoise Action to Homelessness (PATH).
Sadhbh Dunne and Cara Phelan from Scoil Chríost Rí, are asking the community to collectively walk 1,965 km, the distance from their school in Portlaoise to the religious pilgrimage town of Lourdes in France.
The 5th year girls are working towards achieving The Pope John Paul II Award. Normally this gives students an opportunity to go to Lourdes but with Covid-19 this is impossible.
Instead the girls came up with a new solution that unites their year, the school and the wider community, a Walk to Lourdes virtual campaign, that also involves support for the PATH charity, to which the school has shown great support in the past.