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SIPTU Retained Firefighters have voted to accept a Labour Court recommendation aimed at resolving a long-running pay dispute with 64% balloting in favour and 36% against.

Crime data has shown that Arklow Garda Station has reached a six-year peak in recorded offences last year,

Iarnród Éireann has reminded customers of May Bank Holiday weekend rail service arrangements, from Saturday 3rd to Monday 5th May inclusive.

The 34-year-old defender has also called time on her club career with Birmingham City.

The man (aged in his 40’s) arrested yesterday in connection with the investigation, has since been charged.

It will allow the locak authority to take on two additional staff members to update the register and ensure the data is correct, ahead of the presidential election later this year.

The Sinn Féin Deputy is vowing to hold the government and state bodies to account over how taxpayers’ money is spent.

Tánaiste, Minister for Defence, and Wicklow TD Simon Harris has praised the lifesaving work of Ireland’s Emergency Aeromedical Service (EAS), which completed 21 missions in County Wicklow in 2024.

Kris Kiggins, of no fixed abode, appeared before Bray District Court this morning charged with violent disorder and production of an article capable of inflicting serious injury.

Iarnród Éireann is set to implement the final phase of the National Transport Authority’s most recent fares determination from Monday 28th April 2025. 

The application, which will be lodged on Friday, details plans to transform the derelict building into a community and sports and recreation centre.

These grants help owners and custodians of archaeological monuments to safeguard them into the future.

The review aims to identify possible solutions to reopen the amenity, which could be implemented in the short to medium term.

Planning permission for the project was granted by Wicklow County Council back in 2020.

Wicklow-Wexford TD Fionntán Ó Súilleabháin, has welcomed the decision by Quest Retirement Solutions to withdraw its application to turn a public house on Carnews Main Street, 'The Lodge' into an IPAS Centre.

Wicklow RNLI brought three people to safety yesterday evening (Monday 21 April), after their vessel developed mechanical problems four miles south of Wicklow Harbour.

Wicklow-based James Kelly of LMH Engineering Group has been revealed as a finalist in the 2025 EY Entrepreneur Of The Year™ Ireland programme.

Status Yellow rain warnings has been issued for Wicklow, with spells of heavy rain forecast.

Social Democrat TD for Wicklow, Jennifer Whitmore, has formally invited the Minister of State for Biodiversity and Heritage, Minister Christopher O’Sullivan, to visit the Glen of the Downs Nature Reserve

Nine young artists from Wicklow have been recognised among Ireland’s most talented in the 71st Texaco Children’s Art Competition, one of the country’s longest-running and most celebrated art contests.

Three people have been charged in connection with the death of a man in Co. Wicklow earlier this year.

A potentially explosive device, used in military operations, has been recovered in Carlow.

A status yellow rain warning has been issued for the east coast.

An application for 69 homes in Blessington has been refused over a lack of information provided regarding the completion of the Blessington Town Inner Relief Road.

21 additional primary schools in Wicklow have been approved for the Hot School Meals Programme.

The N11/M11 BPIS project began in 2020 and aims to deliver bus priority measures on the N11/M11 in advance of the more comprehensive Junction 4 to Junction 14 scheme. 

27 monitors have been installed in Dublin, Meath and Wicklow to monitor aircraft noise and understand the impact.