Such is the popularity of the Wexford Dip in the Nip it has become a challenge to estimate how many are taking part. Now in its ninth year, the event took place in an unspecified location in south Wexford in the early hours of Sunday morning last. While organisers did their level best to count those arriving in towels and flip-flops, they eventually had to abandon the abacus.
The late Vera Casey, a founder of Rosslare Tidy Towns, loved flowers and the Shasta Daisy was one of her favourites, so it was fitting that the sculpture recently erected in her memory in her adopted village, is that of a daisy.