Arklow councillors have agreed to contribute part of their discretionary funding towards local efforts to help preserve and refurbish a 146-year-old pipe organ at Sts. Mary & Peter Church in Arklow.
Wicklow County Council have completed a new columbarium wall at St Gabriel’s Cemetery in Arklow, at a cost of €20,000, that will provide a resting place for up to 80 cremated remains.
Arklow’s community of maritime enthusiasts have implored Wicklow County Council to help them in their race against the clock to save parts of the “last Arklow coastal trading vessel under sail” before she’s demolished.
An Arklow Municipal District engineer has defended Council staff over claims they are not doing enough to address flooding black spots, saying that local drainage systems are ill-equipped to cope with unprecedented volumes of rainfall.